Re: UTF-7 - is it dead?

From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek@etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 23:46:30 CDT

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    On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:16:36PM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
    > Markus Scherer <markus dot icu at gmail dot com> wrote:
    >
    > >>... you have to read it using a browser that supports UTF-7! Firefox
    > >>supports it but IE 6.0 does not.
    > >
    > >Yes it does, I just tried it. I copied & saved the sample text from
    > >appendix A from RFC 2152 as a .txt file and viewed it with IE 6, Opera
    > >8.54, and Firefox 1.5. With IE, I selected View/Encoding/Auto-Select.
    > >With the others, I chose UTF-7 explicitly.
    >
    > Most of the time, when people say IE doesn't support UTF-7, they mean
    > you can't choose it explicitly as an override, which is true and
    > puzzling. UTF-7 text is not hard to misdetect. (I've intentionally
    > chosen UTF-7 as the encoding for this message; let's see if anyone
    > reports problems reading it.)
    >
    > I note that IE 7.0 beta 2 still doesn't offer UTF-7 as an explicit
    > option.
    >

    How can anyone have problem with it if you are using plain ascii? :-o

    P.T. 

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>

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