Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

Kent,

What you describe is "bad implementation" not "bad designed". Any bad
implementation can make a good design look horrible. I am not saying I like QP
or BASE64. It increase the size of mail unneccessary BUT it works.

-James Seng

> Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> 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