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Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying

2003-01-03 20:09:58

Kai Henningsen <kaih(_at_)khms(_dot_)westfalen(_dot_)de> writes:
rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu (Russ Allbery) wrote:

that all software will soon expect any untagged 8-bit data to be in
Unicode,

That part is baseless exaggeration.

Quite to the contrary, that's a summary of the basic foundation of the
current draft, and is exactly what has been argued by multiple people on
the USEFOR list on multiple occasions.

To be more precise, the expectation is that any untagged 8-bit data will
be in UTF-8.

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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)             
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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