- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:30:10 +0100
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org, langtrans@salut.nu
At 17.15 -0500 02-01-15, Keith Moore wrote: >how present mail UAs handle this is irrelevant, because they >don't handle any other scheme for language selection either. > >the only question for IETF is - what's the best way to do this >in MIME protocol? and nobody has come up with a better alternative >(so to speak) than multipart/alternative. When the MIME standard was introduced, the handling by present mail was central in the design of mail. For example, the QUOTED-PRINTABLE format was chosen, because messages encoded in this format would be at least partly readable for recipients with old mailers. Why should not a graceful downgrading to existing mailers be important for language translation in e-mail, when it was so very important in the design of MIME itself? -- Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/
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