On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:56:16 -0600
"David Barr" <barr(_at_)visi(_dot_)com> wrote:
Given that people have been sending 8-bit data in headers for
years without regard to any existing standard, why do you
believe that releasing a standard that mandates UTF-8 will
cause them to start paying attention to standards again?
It doesn't take much common sense to see those people putting 8-bit data in
headers are precisely the ones who think a) 8-bits in headers work (for
their purposes) and thus b) would be most likely to adopt an 8-bit standard.
the second does not follow from the first. or more specifically,
just because someone puts untagged 8bit characters in a message
header does not mean that that person would support a standard
of using utf-8 (or any other representation other than the one he
happened to be using) in the message header.
--
Keith Moore http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/
27 February 1933 11 September 2001