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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: USEFOR (was: Re: Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus)
Date: 03 Nov 2001 13:34:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylelnfbktl.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2001 22:11:36 +0100"

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>> Why on earth would you require UTF-8 handling for the headers and not
>> take advantage of it for the body?

> Because leaving out the Content-Type header for messages with UTF-8
> content in the body cause problems for pre-standard clients and has no
> real advantages.

Ah, yeah, good point.

> I agree that USEFOR in general are doing too much design and too little
> standardization, but I think they took the least bad option in this
> case.

Yeah, you're right, they did.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-03 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-27 21:50 Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus Raymond Scholz
2001-10-27 22:51 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-28 13:12   ` Raymond Scholz
2001-11-01 11:26     ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 14:37       ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-01 21:06         ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 23:30           ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-02 19:36             ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-02 22:36               ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-03 10:37                 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 14:53                   ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-03 16:36                     ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-03 18:29                       ` Graham Murray
2001-11-03 20:28                         ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 20:28                           ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 20:38                             ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 21:11                               ` USEFOR (was: Re: Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 21:34                                 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2001-11-03 22:01                                 ` USEFOR Florian Weimer
2001-11-05 10:46                                   ` USEFOR Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 21:57                             ` Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 22:09                               ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-04  0:56                                 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-04 10:31                                   ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-04 18:29                           ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-04 23:27                             ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-04 18:24                         ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-03 19:57                     ` Karl Eichwalder
2001-11-03 12:54                 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 23:31                   ` Paul Jarc
2001-11-01 21:14         ` Raymond Scholz
2001-11-01 22:26           ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 17:51       ` news
2001-11-01 21:06         ` Florian Weimer

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