Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)
"Edmon Chung" <[email protected]>
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Why would the message bounce? His mailer would use UTF8. Edmon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claus Färber" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX) 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 -- http://www.faerber.muc.de/