From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 17:16:47 CST
At 09:48 03/03/05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>I'm saying that UTF-8 will still be, for that OS, an *encoding* that has
>to be undone. You're not actually getting to "just put the bits on the
>wire," which is the world that proponents of UTF-8 seem to believe that
>they're going to be living in. You still have to encode and decode the
>bits, at which point it's just as easy to use RFC 2047 as well.
There is a huge difference between RFC 2047 with all its special
rules and UTF-8, which is just a plain character encoding.
As a very simple example, we can convert a whole file from
iso-8859-1 to UTF-8. Converting iso-8859-1 to RFC 2047 isn't
defined at all for a whole file.
Regards, Martin.