Subject: Re: UTF-8 or US-ASCII in RFC 822bis?

From: Johnny Eriksson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:48:29 MET DST

"D. J. Bernstein" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Pete Loshin writes:
> > Or is there some reason not to support UTF-8 that I don't know about?
> 
> The DRUMS document authors are saving a lot of time by pretending that
> text is 7-bit. You'll save a lot of time by ignoring them and talking to
> your MUA implementor directly.

Naturally, it is always a good idea to ignore standards, instead of trying
to follow them, and possibly change them with democratic means, much like
it is a good idea to just to break existing laws, say export control laws,
instead of challenging the stupid laws in court...

> ---Dan

--Johnny