Re: First strawman for UTF-8 headers proposal

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:19:43 -0500 Keith Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> And if you're going to do that, you might as well encode the UTF-8 
> fields somehow, to keep them from causing trouble with existing tools 
> (though fewer in number) that barf on currently-illegal input even in 
> header fields that they do not use.

This is really the issue with the UTF-8 proposal.   Anything that 
*requires* a new SMTP extension is going to take a LONG TIME to deploy on 
the internet.   You should really seek to keep the solution space in the 
land of the MUA and possibly the delivery agent, as much as possible.

Cheers.

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Steve Hole
Chief Technology Officer - Billing and Payment Systems
ACI Worldwide
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