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Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

2003-01-14 18:46:58

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:14:39 -0800
Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com> wrote:


Folks,

Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 4:38:02 PM, you wrote:
D.> Even with that (shortsighted) restriction, RFC 2047 was badly designed.
D.> For example, you should have declared encoding in a separate header


Had Dan been participating in the discussions, 10 years ago, no doubt he
could have ensured that the design was perfect.

yep.  and so obviously perfect that he would have easily won consensus.

Keith