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Re: UTF-7 vs. UTF-8 for fallback charset?

2001-12-05 10:09:29

On 12/5/01 at 7:38 PM +0100, Marc Mutz wrote:

Now, we are discussing making UTF-7 that default instead of UTF-8, because it doesn't need further Content-Transfer-Encoding processing on top of it.

Given that you can use the ESMTP 8BITMIME extension to avoid the transfer encoding and that UTF-7 is a pretty gross encoding for a charset itself, I would recommend not making it the default fallback. Though many MUA's support UTF-7 if they also support UTF-8, I know of none that supports it by default. UTF-7 is really all but dead. I don't think it's worth it.

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