- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:53:03 +0200
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- CC: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, Khurram Ilyas <kilyas@hotmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
Martin Duerst wrote: > > At 19:08 01/08/27 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: > > >John Cowan wrote: > > > > UTF-7 is a silly charset that has no real reason to exist any more. > > > >True, but I believe that 7-bit mail gateways are silly things that have > >no reason toexist anymore, too. Unfortunately one still finds them here > >and there. > > Yes indeed, but the solution to that is to use base64 or quoted-pritable, > which one needs anyway for all kinds of text starting with latin-1 and > for images, sounds,... No, the solution to that is to obselete the anachronistic RFC that allows 7bit gateways. Then images, sounds, etc do not need to be specially processed. -- Chris
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