Re: Are international characters allowed in email addresses?

--On 01-06-28 13.18 -0400 Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
<brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:

> I don't get the point of your final sentence.

Quite a number of charsets (including UTF-8) use more than 8 bit per
character. Because of that, the protocol and the applications which use a
textual based protocol need to operate on characters, and not 8-bit blocks,
and because of this understand the (variable?) size of a character.

This is one of the reasons why the encoding MIME uses works well for
"comments" but very badly for other data in headers in email messages.

   paf

Received on Thursday, 28 June 2001 14:23:22 UTC