Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 19-Oct-91 Re: Non-ASCII hdrs Erik M.
van der Poel(_at_)sra (2495)
The extension that I proposed allows people to continue to put their
romanized name in the headers for the benefit of both
non-Japanese-speaking people and Japanese-speaking people with old
email software. The Smart/Freed proposal doesn't satisfy this
requirement.
This is also easily accomplished with the encoded-variable scheme -- you
can make the variable name your romanized version, e.g.
"&Yasushi_Nakahara" as the variable name.