Interesting info.
Alain
____________________________________
>To: Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>
>Cc: alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmith@apple.com>
>Subject: Re: UTF-7 not UNIX-safe... ?
>X-Face:
"b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq
>
`}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m<Ok5/cC^=
> CxDhg=TJi^o[E
>From: François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
>Date: 18 Aug 1999 14:32:29 -0400
>Lines: 26
>User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.4
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca
id OAA18655
>
>François Pinard wrote:
>
>> Oops, Mark! The quote above uses UTF-8 (as well as the rest of the
>> letter), while the full headers of your email, as received here, were:
>> [...] that is, the contents was announced to be iso-8859-1. You will
>> agree with me that the MIME headers should correctly describe the contents.
>
>Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com> écrit:
>
>> I'm sorry; but I didn't encode it by hand ;-) Netscape communicator
>> seems to have done it. I had switched to UTF-8 to view a particular
>> (other) message, and it must have left it on (but not fixed the header).
[François]
>Just chatting! I'm sharing a very small bit of Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
><larsi@gnus.org>'s Pterodactyl Gnus effort, which is now implementing MIME.
>Lars, with the help of many people, surveyed many known mail user agents,
>to discover how badly they were implementing MIME, on average. He was
>quite surprised, since the MIME standards are quite clear and readable about
>what should be done, and following standards closely does produce good MIME
>implementations. Lars concluded that implementors are just unable, or maybe
>unwilling, to read standards. It seems many implementors invested their
>work on a lot of fluff around a rather void MIME engine, so, missing the
>bare basics. Being intelligent is a more humble act than looking clever :-)
>
>--
>François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:51 EDT