- From: Thierry Sourbier <webmaster@i18ngurus.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:56:21 +0200
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
> > Quoting Carl Brown > > > >How long do we have to maintain 7 bit telecommunications capability? Don't ask me, I have no clue :)). All I can see is that RFC2152 is not yet marked obsolete therefore if I were a disciplined developper I might be tempted to follow it if I need to deal with SMTP :). That said I totally agree that old technologies should be phased out at some point. If would be great if we can consider that using 8 bits everywhere is safe, but who will give the signal? May be Khurram Ilyas could help us understand why he needs to use UTF-7? May be we can convince him than UTF-8 is just so much better and is now safe for what he wants to do :). By the way there was a 7 hours delay between the time I send my posting and the time it was received :(. This means that my answer was written well before John Cowan's one (hence me not taking into account his comments). Have all a great week end, Cheers, Thierry Sourbier ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- www.i18ngurus.com - Open Internationalization Resources Directory
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