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Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

2002-04-26 09:12:15

In <200204251726(_dot_)g3PHQMe09743(_at_)astro(_dot_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> 
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

don't worry about UTF-8 or usenet compatibility anytime soon.
it's far more important to minimize disruption in email service
than it is to use utf-8 on the wire, or to try to keep email and 
usenet in sync.

Has anybody looked into the transitional issues that would arise if Email
was to be moved into allowing UTF-8 headers?

Or are you resigned to the fact that we shall still be encoding headers
using RFC 2047 in 40 years time even though all transports and operating
systems will be 8bit (and even bibary) clean by that time?

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