- From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:58:26 +0300
- To: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>, charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
thanks - please send the revised BOCU-1 registration with the warning in it, so that I can pass it to IANA and say "I approve". I think this has been discussed enough now. last followup on the email tangent, though..... --On 4. september 2002 14:05 -0700 Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com> wrote: >> Remember that we have zero (none, nada, nil, zilch) generally supported >> ways of figuring out what charsets the recipient of an email supports. > > > Well, if an SMTP email system does not support the Content-Type: header, > then this is true for all charsets. (Except that you can use heuristics > for just about everything, but that's cheating.) > the content-type header passes information from the sender to the recipient, not from the recipient to the sender.
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