Yes, end-to-end would be working, however consider if Office-That-Supports-EAI is installed on Win7, then this would've worked. If the OS is then upgraded, users will expect it to continue working.
-Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Hardie [mailto:ted.ietf at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:04 PM
To: Shawn Steele
Cc: ima at ietf.org
Subject: Re: [EAI] [Fwd: AD review of draft-duerst-mailto-bis-06.txt]
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Shawn Steele<Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com> wrote:
On my machine if I open "run", then type mailto:shäwn, then Outlook opens up with shäwn in the To: line. Same thing happens if I stick it in an href in an HTML document. I think I even tried it with a different browser (sorry, don't remember which one, don't have others installed at the moment). Of course I couldn't actually send the mail, but the "mailto" part worked.
For "the 'mailto part" to be considered to have worked, the mail has to get end to end, at least in my opinion.
The problem here is fundamentally that some part of the system has to take what the user thinks is correct and turn into something that the mail system can deliver. The more pieces we allow to contain "what the user thinks is correct" rather than "what the mail system can deliver", the further down into the system any translation between the two must occur.
Unless "shäwn" is a valid email address, showing that in a protocol slot (which mailto is) seems like the wrong trade-off to me.
YMMV; offer not good in jurisdictions legislating the value of pi.
Ted
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