In article <d4b6a868-2db3-ea46-6ffd-627bfc35b25d(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net>,
Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net> wrote:
To be fair, when I saw the lack of any specified encoding
As a few postings have demonstrated with emoticons in this thread, it's
clear that at least some MUAs (or MSAs or MTAs?) are already able to
take 'raw' Unicode and pass it successfully to recipient MUAs.
That's a UTF8SMTP aka EAI feature. They're only supposed to do that
for recipients that advertise UTF8SMTP as an EHLO option but having
just done a bunch of EAI compliance tests I can tell you that they're
pretty sloppy about when they do.
Still since there's been concern about encoding raised, I'll ask for
suggested text to include in the draft.
Make it a MIME word with the usual base64 or QP encoding, like the
subject line of the message you just sent. As far as I can tell, only
Unicode has an interesting repertoire of emoji so you could say that
they must be encoded UTF-8.
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