From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mime
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:12:38 +0000
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> What brain damaged piece of dog
> excrement program would throw away the 8th bit of every
> byte in today's world?

annoying thing is that you don't know what the 8th bit means until
you've parsed the Content-transfer-encoding header.  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).

i don't think that the header is allowed 8 bit stuff no matter what.

is the idea that if we just send utf regardless, sooner or later
mailers will assume that 8bit chars in mail headers are utf?

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.

  rog.