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Re: Headers: the universal character set option in detail

1991-10-18 14:49:04
I would strongly recommend against the use of any RFC-822 special characters
in personal name phrases.  I trust quoted strings to avoid the problem about
as much as I trust the Red Chinese government to allow dissent and freedom of
speech.

This is not a fantasy.  The number of mail programs which parse RFC-822
according to the RFC-822 grammar are greatly outnumbered by the number which
do not.  This includes most versions of /usr/ucb/Mail.