Re: New UTF-7 draft

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>]

> Although those of you on the IETF announcements list will already have seen
> it, I wanted to draw attention to the new version of the UTF-7 (mail safe
> Unicode in MIME) document posted as an internet draft
> (draft-goldsmith-mime-utf7-02.{txt,ps}).

Are you joking?

Just as Keith said:

:It's impractical to
:support the entirety of ISO 2022 (new charsets can always be added), so a
:client needs to know which of the charsets are being used before it can
:decide whether to display the body part.

it is impractical to support the entirety of ISO 10646.

In short, a client needs to know which of the characters are being used
before it can decide whether to display the body part.

See

	draft-ohta-mime-charset-names-00.txt

for the detail on how impractical it is with existing implementations.

							Masataka Ohta

PS

As your proposal is bad enough already, I don't think I must point out
other prolems of the proposal.