Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

[email protected] (Claus Färber)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Edmon Chung <[email protected]> schrieb/wrote:

> I dont agree with the forward looking part.
> The big reason as far as I believe that there should be a charset parameter
> is because of forward looking.  Today we move from English only to
> multilingual... if the design in the first place allowed the charset
> parameter, we wouldnt have the problem at all...

No, we would have a lot of problems now.

For example, someone wants to send me a mail to cfä[email protected], but his  
mailer uses ISO-8859-15, which the MDA of my ISP does not know (although  
it knows ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8). The message bounces.

Claus
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