What makes you think that Japanese computers would reject a message?
My example was specifically about a message that mixed Cyrillic with
Kanji and therefore had to be in a universal character set. You are
the one that said the Japanese would never accept a universal
character set that they didn't invent.
In your example, the Russian professor would use JIS to send mail to Japan,
You aren't paying attention. The example is a mixture of Kanji and
Cyrillic. Does JIS support Cyrillic? Everything? If so it is a
universal character set itself. If not there are messages that we
are planning to support that can't be handled by the JIS solution.
It is only the
IETF-822 community which fails to recognize that e-mail to Japan already works
and is 7-bit clean.
Eh? Didn't I specify in my previous message that they could use
Header-charset: iso-2022 / 7bit
Doesn't that prove that I understand that their stuff is 7 bit clean?
8-bit transport may save a
few bytes in the message -- generally 6 bytes/line, but it's otherwise not a
big deal.
Have you got me confused with someone else? This isn't ietf-smtp and
I'm not from Prime! I am on record as saying that the only problems
solved by 8-bit transport are political. This has absolutely nothing
to do with the best way of specifying what the display components
of headers mean. If the Japanese currently just put iso-2022 in
their headers then all my proposal asks of them is that they add
a header so that the receiving software knows this. Is that too much
to ask? The proposal also discusses how such information is universalized
when it is combined. Since you don't seem to regard combining stuff
from different environments as important you can just ignore that.
Problems with quoted phrases (not just quoted local parts) do exist. Trust
me, and everybody else who has worked with e-mail for the past nearly 2
decades.
All I ask is some specific (name, version) software and some specific
quoted phrase examples. I refuse to accept that I am not entitled to
see such a specific example.
Bob Smart