- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:48:48 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-math@w3.org
Several of you have responded privately.
I pointed to what I saw as a problem by quoting the headers. It's
just that I am not sure what is wrong. It may be simply the absence
of a content-transfer-encoding header.
Please note the irony in that XML systems *should* be up-to-speed
with different character sets via unicode. Of course, SMTP is not XML.
I do not know where this problem instance originated.
I am also not sure whether the w3.org relay can do anything about a
message that is originally erroneous in this regard.
And I'm not sure if an SMTP message subject header can be other than 7
bit ascii.
It is unfortunate that the burden of getting this right seems to have
a somewhat unfair distribution.
Curiously, on my screen, configured for ISO latin-1, the subject
header is printable, but AFAIK not representative of any language for
which ISO latin-1 is appropriate.
This raises the question of what regexp calls in various programming
languages may be used to discern a legal XML tagname.
-- Bill
Received on Monday, 13 September 1999 11:49:03 UTC