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Re: The transition to UTF-8 header fields

1999-02-12 11:07:59
Charles Lindsey writes:
So long as the reader
displays _something_ distinct for every possible combination of octets
received, nothing is going to break.

Replacing the proper 8859-1 characters with ``_something_'' will annoy
the users.

They'll ask for the feature to be removed, or at least turned off by
default.

You may think that they're overreacting. But you'll have to pay
attention to them if you don't want an unnecessarily slow transition.

---Dan