Re: Last Call: Originator-Info Message Header to Experimental

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst at W3.ORG>]

At 07:50 98/07/15 -0700, Chris Newman wrote:

> If you want to allow unencoded UTF-8 in message headers, you'll have a
> long and bloody fight ahead of you.  It may not be possible to deploy
> unencoded UTF-8 in headers without either breaking standards compliant
> software or deploying a UTF8HEADER extension to SMTP, IMAP and POP.
> Originator-Info is the wrong place to do either of these.

I would be nice if some of the old 7-bit die-hards would recognize that
having UTF-8 directly (i.e. without MIME encoding) in headers is what
we should end up sooner or later anyway (of course with proper
standardization),
so that long and bloody fights can be avoided. Making sure that raw
headers are consistently UTF-8 is a good way to avoid having them 
(raw!) in whatever other encodings.


Regards,   Martin.