Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

So you think its better to mandate some other encoding rather than UTF8?
Edmon



----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Duerst" <[email protected]>
To: "Edmon Chung" <[email protected]>; "Mark Davis" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)


>
> At 21:20 03/02/25 -0500, Edmon Chung wrote:
>
> >Hi Mark,
> >
> >I think you are right.  That is why in the IMAX description, UTF8 is
> >mandated.  The thinking is similar to XML among other things.
>
> There is a huge difference between headers (where having
> a single encoding is very important, because the tagging
> overhead is high, there are conversion problems,...) and
> bodies. Parallels to XML work for other body formats, but
> are really not adequate for headers.
>
> Also, XML is already 5 years old. Something new should look
> ahead, and not try to carry too much unnecessary old stuff.
>
>
> Regards,    Martin.
>