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Re: on character sets and encodings

1993-02-13 21:37:58
plans that would require
flag-day switchover of either gateways or UAs are non-starters.

For this reason, it would be better to leave the gateways as they are.
Instead, the UAs should be altered (not necessarily all on the same
day) so that, when MIME support is added, the program is also made to
check what code the headers are in.  I.e. if the header says
"us-ascii", but the "u" is 0xa4 (hex a4), then the program could guess
that it was converted to EBCDIC.

:-)  Probably a slippery slope...


Erik


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