David Barr <barr(_at_)visi(_dot_)com> writes:
However, client support for (and active use of) UTF-8 is far more
pervasive than any of the other proposed encoding schemes.
For Newsgroups, yes. (Although this is a matter of there being one or two
implementations compared to none, and I'm not sure how significant that
is.)
I believe this is incorrect for everything other than Newsgroups. In
other words, I believe that you'll find that support for RFC 2047 encoding
in the Subject and From headers is far more common than support for
untagged UTF-8 in those headers.
Both of the examples given of news readers that support untagged UTF-8
also support RFC 2047 for those fields.
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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)
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