On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> It's ironic that some of mail related RFCs of IETF were written
> by authors working at Qualcomm. Those authors may work at a different
> division of Qualcomm than the one making Eudora ;-).
Maybe not. The dict RFC specifies that text on wire will be in UTF-8.
The authors of the RFC also offer a dictionary and server, that when
combined, send out Latin-1 over the wire, and a client that dumps the
data coming over the wire to the console. This, of course, all works for
them, and so there has been no interest in changing it.
(Since anybody doing anything with it in non-English is using unlabeled
8-bit data, there's influence not to fix anything, because it would have
to break existing stuff that sort of works.)
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)
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