Charles Lindsey wrote:
In <3E1F4614(_dot_)70105(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
.... Drop the raw utf-8 nonsense and move on to somthing that has
a non-zero chance of baing (a) standardized and (b) implemented.
The chances of getting it standardized may or may not be zero. But the
chances of it being implemented are certainbly non-zero, because
implementations already exist.
Please do keep in mind the situation being discussed. Now can you
provide examples of implementations of general-purpose news->mail
gateways which will always produce legal, properly charset- and
language-tagged header fields, including experimental fields, from
input with a variety of untagged 8-bit charsets (as currently abounds
on Usenet)? Of course you cannot, because it is impossible.