- From: A. Vine <andrea.vine@Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:18:21 -0800
- To: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Too hostile. Your word is last. Bask in your glory. Jungshik Shin wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, A. Vine wrote: > > >>Jungshik Shin wrote: >> >>>A. Vine wrote: > > >>>>I'm with Steve. >>> >>> >>>On what? I don't think he took any position. >> >>Explained just after I made that comment, but since you didn't make the >>connection - >>I'm with Steve who said he didn't use RFC 2231. I'm with > > > It was perfectly clear to me what you're alluding to by that sentence. > See below. > > >>Steve who used RFC 2047. I agree with Steve's solution, as imperfect as >>it may be. > > > I knew he had done that, but he tried RFC 2231 first _before_ falling > back to RFC 2047. Besides, he didn't make any comment on the awakardness > of RFC 2231. So, apparently, his position was not (entirely) in line with > yours, which was my point. > > > >>>>RFC 2231 is so awkward and has so little support (it's >>>>been around for many years and yet only now have even a few products >>>>decided to support it) >>> >>> >>> It's not more awkward than RFC 2047 for simple cases. > > >>For simple cases. But you can't support RFC 2231 for "simple cases" >>only. It is as awkward as RFC 2047 in simple cases but has the extra >>disadvantage that it is different from RFC 2047, and RFC 2047 was >>implemented first. > > > RFC 2047 cannot be used (at least for emails) not because there's > RFC 2231 but because using RFC 2047 for header field parameters > is in violation of RFC 822/STD 11. > > Moreover, what's the role of JSP/servlet, PHP/Perl modules, ASP > (controls?) if it's not to make difficult/awkward things easy for > 'end-users' ('end-developers', developers down the stream)? Mozilla does > support it. Pine has no problem dealing with it. Why not brilliant > programmers at Sun and other places who work on those? > > Jungshik -- I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )
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