Re: on character sets and encodings1993-02-13 21:37:58plans 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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