From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 10:14:24 CST
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> > - Use of non-ASCII character sets in article headers and bodies
>
> That's subsumed by the part that says
> - Standardization of article bodies and the use of MIME in articles.
> since MIME provides for non-ASCII character sets in header fields and bodies.
It provides for non-ASCII character sets in *some* header fields. (Taken
literally, 2047 makes it impossible to use its facilities in, for example,
newsgroup names.) The temptation to diverge from MIME's handling of the
issue would have been considerably reduced if the MIME facilities had been
more general-purpose.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net