Re: [EAI] New draft for allowing UTF-8 in SMTP responses

["Charles Lindsey" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:27:35 +0100, Alexey Melnikov
<[e-mail]> wrote:

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> Date: 	Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:50:02 -0400	
> Subject: 	I-D ACTION:draft-melnikov-smtp-lang-05.txt 	
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
> directories.
>
>
>
> Title: SMTP Language Extension
>
> Author(s): M. Gahrns, A. Melnikov
>
> Filename: draft-melnikov-smtp-lang-05.txt
>
> Pages: 0
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> Date: 2006-8-2
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>
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> The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 2821) allows server responses to
>
> include human-readable text that in many cases needs to be presented to
>
> the user.  This document specifies a way for a client to negotiate which
> language the server should use when sending human-readable text. It also  
> extends
> DSN format to include language field for the human-readable text.
>

Having just returned from 10 days holiday, I have not had an opportunity
to read this draft yet.

However, draft-ietf-nntpext-base-27.txt (which is just waiting for the RFC
editor to publish it as proposed standard) allows such rsponses in UTF-8
in NNTP, so please do not do anything that would be unnecessarily
different from that draft.

I grant you that said draft provides no mechanism for the user to specify
which language the user would like his responses to be in, which is a
serious omission.

Does anybody know whether other standards that produce responses in the
form of 3 digits followed by free text have made provision for strangs
languages/charsets?



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