Re: The Great UTF-8 SWITCHEROO

Jeff Breidenbach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.archives.mail-archive
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Question for the email gurus - 

I've seen a small but not tiny number of messages where the
Mail User Agent is sticking raw iso-8859-1 characters (outside
the ASCII range) inside the Subject: header. And not using
an RFC 2047 encoding. Our software is barfing on those
characters when we convert to UTF-8, for example:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09684.html

It's not clear to me whether these messages are illegal or not. If 
they are illegal, well, tough cookies. If such messages are legal, I 
want to make sure the software is doing the right thing. Pointers to 
a particular section in an RFC is highly appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff

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