Re: [EAI] "6. Email header Downgrading" (Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-03.txt)

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:03:45 -0000, Kari Hurtta  
<hurtta+gmane at siilo.fmi.fi> wrote:


> |   other headers:
> |      All other headers which contains UTF-8 characters are preserved in
> |      Downgraded: header and removed.
>
> Removing of MIME's  Content-Type -header field produces incorrect result.
>
> Basically mime-type part (type/subtype) of that header-field must be  
> preserved.
> Also following mime paramaters need to be preserved: charset and boundary
> These parameter values should be ASCII -only.  Also type/subtype value
> should be ASCII -only.

Which just leaves possible <parameter>s with UTF-8 in theor <value>s. We  
should define that these are to be downgraded using RFC 2231.

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