From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 22:00:49 CST
On 2/28/03 10:10 AM, Forrest J. Cavalier III at <mibsoft@epix.net> wrote:
> I say there is no reason to wait, because
> there _is_ a way to do I18N on Usenet today,
> which will work with existing transport software,
> and is very likely to be compatible with any future Usefor draft.
>
> 1. Do not rely on transmitting anything other than 7-bit
> ASCII in headers. Since there has been no dispute of
> the parts of the Usefor draft which propose standardizing
> RFC2047/RFC2231/MIME, use them.
It doesn't "work" unless the people reading it see it properly displayed,
that leaves out punycode, and it doesn't "work" unless it gets adopted by
the users, which leaves out 2047.
Why don't you suggest that the people trying to unring the bell (prohibit 8
bits being sent) stop hanging things up?
-- J.B. Moreno