On 10/22/2012 04:11 PM, Tim wrote: > 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. >
Whatever.... UFT-7 isn't widely used.... But if you want to use it go ahead. Must be an Australian thing.... :-) :-) -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
