Re: UTF-7 and java

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