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Re: FW: ban the use and implementation of UTF-7

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Subject: Re: FW: ban the use and implementation of UTF-7
From: Kari Hurtta <hurtta+gmane@siilo.fmi.fi>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:49:16 +0200
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Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org> writes gmane.ietf.charsets:

> Speaking as one of the authors, I think it is clear that UTF-7 should only
> be supported where really necessary; only in environments that are not 8-bit
> clean. It was originally designed for email, but in this day and age, 8-bit
> clean email transport is really not much of an issue.
> 
> Mark

Well, UTF-7 is attractive on mail header fields, because 8-bit is not yet allowed.

/ Kari Hurtta

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