Mark Crispin writes:
There is a presumption, which I think is fatally flawed, that the only
character set which counts is 8-bit ISO. This is a major weakness of
the TEXT/charset type.
Could you explain this a bit please?
You really should define and implement
non-USASCII character sets in RichText instead.
You mean something like this?
From: <ISO-8859-1>name</ISO-8859-1> <user(_at_)domain>
The other fundamental conflict is that many of the character sets in
question are implemented in hardware.
Since when has hardware been a concern of this working group? Isn't it
one of the underlying assumptions that RFC-XXXX conformant software
will do conversions and/or use fallbacks to cater to the hardware
restrictions?
Regards,
EvdP