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Re: The transition to UTF-8 header fields

1999-02-11 10:09:01
In <199902101331(_dot_)IAA20315(_at_)spot(_dot_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith 
Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

OK, so what would that look like? Presumably it would have to include
downgrading of some sort.

one thing at a time.  first, you need a good spec for the format,

Well I recently posted here a summary of what USEFOR is proposing -
essentially all protocol words must be ASCII, stuff for humans may be
non-ASCII (phrases, unstructureds, values of some parameters, etc). There
will be a new USEFOR draft out shortly with detailed syntax (though still
needing some details fixing). That could be a good starting point.

probably along with some strong discouragement to ship
UAs that generate raw UTF-8 by default 
(but support for reading it might not be such a bad idea)

the downgrading document can follow  - actually it should specify
translation in both directions.

Yes, something like that.

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