From: Dirk Nimmich (nimmich@muenster.de)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 13:44:29 CST
J.B. Moreno wrote:
> Clearly the "just send 8 bit" crowd are a large portion of those
> who aren't using English.
The question is why the crowd does just send 8 bit. My assumption is
that the main reason for this is that most software does it by
default though it would be able to use the mechanisms described in
RFC 2047. (Sending 8 bit chars in the body is ok as long as the
transfer encoding and the charset are declared in the header.) Your
housewives in Korea don't know how to change that default and would
happily "use" RFC 2047 in headers if that was the default.