From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <002701c0548f$906b9500$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20001122121028.38BD3199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] mime MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:21:54 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f3128f0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: > ...it would be nice > if we could convert the whole thing from utf initially, but some > people have a habit of sending latin1 which of course translates as > lots of broken utf runes (and presumably utf translates as broken > latin1 on many machines). that's how it goes. je déconne pas... did you see the e acute? > i don't think that the header is allowed 8 bit stuff no matter what. yes, hence that hideous ?...? encoding crap. > is the idea that if we just send utf regardless, sooner or later > mailers will assume that 8bit chars in mail headers are utf? bit of a circular problem; the headers specify the encoding which you don't know until you've read the headers. it's been hard enough to get 1 extra bit through [the 8th bit] without stomping all over rfc 822. > i might hack up a version of marshal that conforms to the standards, > at least superficially. it would be nice to be able to send mail that > people on other platforms could read. we're not so far away. i'm not sure you want to do that. it's a mimefield.