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> From: RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja@inet.org]
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> At 12:05 16-03-00 , Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> >Most software will be able to handle UTF-8 for any text.
>
> This is a very bold claim. Please substantiate the use
> of the word "most". Most within which sample ?
> Most for what KIND of software ? Please qualify your
> assertions.
Any new or substantially updated software that handles text
in any way.
> >It seems to me that you have not been so subjected to QP and
> >BASE64 during the last decade. I have. My collegues have.
> >Many, many more have. No-one's pleased. And the problem isn't
> >gone yet.
>
> I'm not sympathetic. Sendmail can eliminate both QP and
> BASE64-for-text at delivery time. The configuration on my
> desktop at work automatically does this already. Other MTAs could
> do the same. Similarly, the MTA can down-convert to 7-bit,
> QP, and/or BASE64 if required -- without user involvement.
A decade of experience with this tells me that that (still!!)
***DOES NOT*** work without glitches. I've been updating e-mail
clients by the year, sometimes several times a year, to loose at
least some of the bugs related to QP and BASE64. And we got a
message just the other day, on this list, showing that it still
doesn't work well everywhere. Not long ago somebody dragged me
into his office and asked why e-mail so-and-so was all garbled.
It turned out that the QP was not decoded due to a little NLCR
in the header. Fairly new client software...
Please, not again!
> "Just send 8-bit"
As I have said repeatedley: that's not what I'm suggesting.
Please stop implying otherwise.
Kind regards
/kent k