Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu writes:
OK? You see that second sentence? It says "the body is a sequence of
lines containing ASCII characters". If you have be en putting
something other than ASCII in the body of an RFC822 mail, YOU ARE
VIOLATING RFC822. The mere fact that in your particular application,
it happens to work, does NOT mean that it's legal.
One way of getting Americans to understand the views of people
with other native languages than English is to take an example
of a practice which is often done by Americans.
Americans often send uuencoded or binhexed data in messages.
Such data is not ASCII any more than the older ways of
encoding e.g. Japanese into e-mail. So if it is illegal to
use the older Japanese methods of encoding Japanese into
e-mail, then it is as illegal to send uuencoded or binhexed
data in messages!
I agree that all should adopt MINE as soon as possible
(even the Japanese) but to claim that older Japanese
practices are illegal is much too strong!