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Re: New-ish idea on non-ascii headers

1991-09-20 11:11:52
From: Craig_Everhart(_at_)transarc(_dot_)com

About Robert Ullmann's observation, which I think is that 8-bit
characters can be encoded via RFC 822 simply by prefixing them with the
appropriate quote character.

I most definitely did _not_ say that. I _said_ that 822 already
provides a standard quoting mechanism that _could_ be used to
prevent 8 bit chars from causing trouble _if_ 8 bit chars are
allowed.

bodies) of RFC 822 messages.  Either Mr. Ullmann made a mistake here, or
this is another provocative and contentions assertion that the 7-bit
issues can go away just by pretending that they don't exist, and
declaring all non-8-bit mail handlers broken.

Why do you go to so much trouble to misunderstand me, so that you
can attribute to me a position I do not in fact hold?

Robert Ullmann

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