Re: First strawman for UTF-8 headers proposal

At 2:08 AM +0000 11/29/03, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>Hence I think it might be a good idea to use new field-names for the
>UTF-8-enabled fields, to reduce the chance of accidentally misleading
>old software.  If there is an algorithmic way to determine the syntax
>of the new-style Foo field given the syntax of the old-style Foo field,
>then there should also be a way to algorithmically associate the name of
>the new-style Foo field with the name Foo.

This might be OK, but it makes message processing by displaying MUAs 
and by other applications much harder.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium