In <89108836668(_dot_)20030111162443(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com>, on 01/11/2003
at 04:24 PM, Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com> said:
7. breaking standards is not measured by whether someone's code
core-dumps. it is measured by whether it violates the specification.
sending 8-bit data in a 7-bit environment breaks the specification.
The jinni is already out of the body; people have been sending 8-bit
data in headers for years. They have had good reasons for doing so,
even though they broke interoperability. Mandating UTF-8 would help to
restore interoperability.
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