Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

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From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 18:39:00 CST


Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> In <8dypLWEocDD@3247.org> claus@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>> This only applies to text for human consumption (i.e. everything where
>> RFC 2047's encoded-words are allowed). Raw UTF-8 in newsgroup names has
>> already been proven to cause severe interoperability problems.

> Eh? It seems to work rather well according to the tests that have been
> done.

http://www.landfield.com/usefor/2002/Jan/0053.html

You can't just ignore software that does not work and declare that it
"seems to works rather well".

Claus

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