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Re: [idn] draft-ietf-idn-requirements-07.txt

Andrea Vine <avine@eng.sun.com> Mon, 25 June 2001 17:57 UTC

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:30:38 -0700
From: Andrea Vine <avine@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: [idn] draft-ietf-idn-requirements-07.txt
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Florian, et al,
I think it's deprecated as well, but I couldn't find the cite.  A modified form
of UTF-7 is specified for IMAP folder names, but then again I haven't seen too
many mail servers bother with it.
Andrea

Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> [A fullquote without any comment]
> 
> Sorry about that.  Of course, I didn't want to send this message.
> It's strange that it went out because I killed the buffer which
> contained it, at least I think so, and no Cc was placed in my outgoing
> mail archive. *sigh*
> 
> Andrea Vine <avine@eng.sun.com> writes:
> 
> >    Quoted-Printable, BASE64, UTF-7 (defunct), (UTF-5, and RACE)."
> >
> >   Is UTF-7 defunct, or deprecated?  Also, why are UTF-5 and RACE in parens?
> 
> Deprecated, I think.  For example, SAFT uses it, and some mail user
> agents do as well.  By encoding UTF-16, UTF-7 can even handle the full
> character range, however this double encoding seems hackish to me.

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