On 2-feb-04, at 18:20, Martin Duerst wrote:
At 14:52 04/02/02 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
The only conclusion that's obvious is that email is a global system
so requiring capabilities we can't reasonably expect to be available
globally (ie, the ability to manipulate non-latin characters) is not
an option.
If you use UTF-8, then the only ability you really need globally is
the ability to manipulate streams of 8-bit bytes. Any problems with
that?
The problem isn't the encoding inside the computer, it's the user or
administrator that must be able to do something reasonable with it. In
this regard, UTF-8 encoding doesn't help much.