Re: UUCP, etc., and SMTP/822/MIME mail (was: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt)

At 18:19 04/01/02 +0100, Keld Jn Simonsen wrote:

>I am not sure that we today should only go for UTF-8 for the
>enhancements on email addresses, as UTF-8 as used in IETF specs is not
>an international standard.

Please explain what the difference is between "UTF-8 as used in IETF
specs" and UTF-8 as defined in ISO 10646? And in what way is this
difference relevant to the task at hand?


>I also fear that just sending 8 bit will harm existing conforming
>implementations.

As far as I understand, that's not what the UTF-8-HEADERS extension
is about.


Regards,  Martin.