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

2002-05-05 02:36:19

Charles Lindsey writes:
  [ on sendmail's destruction of bytes 128-159 in message headers ]
Does anyone know if they plan to change that in some foreseeable future?

They don't even admit that it's a bug. In fact, according to the IETF
specifications, it's perfectly acceptable to mangle all 8-bit bytes,
including ISO 8859-1 bytes in the message body.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago