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Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying

2003-01-14 05:12:56

In <3E22ADC2(_dot_)5050702(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly 
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:

Charles Lindsey wrote:

Not so. Untagged data in "any other" charset would be non-compliant with
the standard,

Clearly, that is being handled as a religious issue; 'thou shalt have no
gods other than utf-8', and would delare those other charsets 'heretical'.
If you think carefully and objectively about why untagged 8-bit content
in charsets other than utf-8 is bad, you will realize why untagged utf-8
is also bad.  But fundamentalist religious zealots never think objectively
about their beliefs...

Currently, the email standards require that 'thou shalt have no gods other
than US-ASCII' (and that position does seem to be being defended in the
manner of a religious issue). Expanding that, within Netnews, to 'thou
shalt have no gods other than utf-8' is clearly a viable option, whereas
saying 'thou mayst have any untagged gods thou likest' is not viable
because there is no way to tell which god you are invoking, which is going
to cause some considerable confusion on the top of Mount Olympus.

Indeed, some GB18030 heretics may try to get away with it, but at least it
is easy to detect those heresies when they occur.

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