From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 12:19:13 CST
J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> The majority of messages sent with non-ASCII content in headers, are
> sent with "raw" byte values, not 2047 encoded. That's a fact, that's
> part of "news", although it may not be part of 1036. We are /supposed/
> to be telling people that /want/ to write news software what to expect
> -- if we tell them that what they should expect is ASCII, then we are
> LYING to them.
By that argument, if we tell them to expect UTF-8, we're also lying to
them. That argument says that the standard should tell people to expect
random unlabelled 8-bit character sets.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>