Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt

Keith Moore writes:
>> Sure. I've seen such code code convert
...
> nope, that's bad layering.

It is now. Back when the internet had lots of mail gateways that needed 
to do format conversion it wasn't, IMO.

> such conversions are occasionally necessary but should be avoided when 
> possible.

Agree 100%.

Luckily I've never seen this particular sort of conversion mess things 
up. Perhaps the consequences are so visible and so bad that problems 
get fixed before release.

Anyway, unless people have seen worse problems, the "8" field approach 
("8: from: ü@ü.de") shouldn't cause run into canonicalization problems. 
It may be zealously removed, it may be mishandled, but I don't see any 
reason that it'll be mashed together with other 8s.

--Arnt