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Re: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-uri-00.txt
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Subject: Re: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-uri-00.txt
- From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:57:01 +0100
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:04:06 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 15.05 -0500 01-01-11, Keith Moore wrote:
>It is also quite often mangled beyond recognition, due to
>a combination of software that is unable to cope with 8 bit text,
>software that attempts to convert 8-bit text to RFC 2047 form, and
>software that tries to perform character set conversions on such
>text without knowing the original character set.
Most problematic are software which send ISO 8859-1 untagged in
various places. I get about 10% of my messages in that form (2-5/day
out of about 20-50 which are in Swedish). Only visible if you run a
mail client which doesn't use ISO 8859-1 as native charset of course.
paf