Ed Greshko: >> I don't think it is very common to see UTF-7. > FWIW.... Contained within http://www.imc.org/imcr-010.html > > It should be noted that the Unicode Standard also defines the UTF-7 > charset, which was intended for Internet mail. However, MIME is quite > capable of carrying UTF-8, and UTF-8 is expected to be used in many > protocols, not just Internet mail. Fortunately, very few vendors > implemented UTF-7, and its use is strongly discouraged in Internet > mail.
Discouraged by who? It's supposedly *the* answer to email, to stop allegedly helpful mail services transcoding 8 bit mail on the way through, just because it thinks 8-bit mail is a bad idea (plenty of people have wacky views on that, too), whether that 8-bit is UTF-8 or anything else that's 8-bit text. My own experiments with pushing mail through various external servers has shown plenty of annoyingly helpful servers transcoding UTF-8 plain text into base64 encoded, or even quoted-printable, both of which are a pain in various ways. Whereas they left UTF-7 alone. Anyway, any modern mail software (server or client) which screws up UTF-7, as in the original responder's reply, is seriously broken. And I feel similarly for software which foolishly go about transcoding mail. If I get a mail in an encoding that the client doesn't automatically handle, I can opt to try viewing it with a forced selection of different encoding types. It's hard to do that if a transcoder has taken a format and mangled it, instead of just passing it through. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
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