From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 13:44:52 CST
J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> Which is exactly what we *do* say:
> Encoding by other means is not compliant with this standard.
> Nevertheless, encoding using other character sets (with no indication
> of which one beyond the user's ability to guess based upon other
> clues in the article, or custom within the newsgroup) has been in use
> in some hierarchies, and such usage may be expected to continue for
> some period after the introduction of this standard.
> We are telling the users and programmers to switch, and warning
> programmers that such will not happen immediately, that they will, for a
> time, have to continue to cope with random charsets.
And we can tell them that whether we advocate RFC 2047 or UTF-8. So this
is all pure red herring that has nothing to do with the rest of the
thread.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>