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Re: A (possibly) better way to get input integrity
From: roessler () sobolev cologne de (Thomas Roessler)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:14:25 +0100 (MET)
der Mouse wrote:
I disagree about some of those. High-half characters (128-255), which is presumably what you mean by "8-bit bytes", are necessary if you are to be taken seriously outside the USA. Not everyone finds ASCII sufficient, y'know. *I* certainly am not about to be the one to tell some French postmaster sie can't set up a mail alias "inouo" just because someone on the other side of the pond decided character 0xef (Latin-1 i-diaeresis) was somehow less safe than character 0x69 (Latin-1, and ASCII, i).
Well, RFCs 822 and 1522 don't allow anything but US-ASCII inside headers, Latin-1 special characters are not allowed in email addresses. The only thing where such characters may show up is in real names (and comments), but there they must be encoded in some MIMEish way (cf. RFC 1522). Thomas -- roessler () indi5 iam uni-bonn de * roessler () sobolev cologne de Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. -- F. J. Raymond
Current thread:
- Re: A (possibly) better way to get input integrity der Mouse (Feb 26)
- Re: A (possibly) better way to get input integrity Perry E. Metzger (Feb 26)
- Re: A (possibly) better way to get input integrity Thomas Roessler (Feb 26)