Re: Comments on draft-klensin-emailaddr-i18n-00

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> writes:

> Simon Josefsson writes:
>> (Out of curiosity, are there any widely used and open standards that
>> encode Unicode into anything but UTF-8 during network transport or
>> disk storage, except IDNA?)
>
> Yes. See RFC 3501 section 5.1.3.

Ah.  How could I forget.

> Since UTF-7 is smaller than UTF-8+QP for some/many strings, I assume
> there are MUAs that use UTF-7 for body text.

Right.  Good examples.

This doesn't counter Dan's or my arguments, though, since UTF-8 is
still commonly implemented.  These examples just prove other
alternatives exist, which I really shouldn't have doubted.

Thanks,
Simon