Re: Headers folding

Harald Alvestrand <[email protected]> writes:

> The syntax above also (and perhaps more importantly) allows UTF-8 in
> headers, something that is illegal in RFC 5322 and USEFOR. You should
> check for conformance with the EAI spec.

Yes, this was done intentionally for NNTP with the understanding that
for the time being articles carried by NNTP will probably have to
satisfy a more restrictive standard that doesn't allow UTF-8.  Since
NNTP doesn't, for the most part, care about the contents of the message,
we took this approach so that should UTF-8 be added to a message format
standard in the future, NNTP will hopefully not require revision.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>