which use chars: =C4 =D6 (and =C5) (TeX: \"A \"O \AA )
This line is meaningless to me.
Like Keith has commented earlier, "Just-send-8-bit without labeling
the character set is foolish"
To me, its foolish to try to have a standard to deny what is already
being used widely without any difficulty.
Not that Masataka's ISO-2022.. proposal would be that bad, it just
feels to me a lot more like an interface in between MIME-parsing system
(pine, for example), and the display terminal..
Your interpretation is very good. That is, MIME should have nothing to
do with encoding issues.
Masataka Ohta