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Re: [EAI] I-D Action: draft-ietf-eai-mailinglistbis-00.txt

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Thu, 24 November 2011 16:09 UTC

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>>> Where does using a percent-encoded instead of a punycoded
>>> <ihost> help wrt mailing lists?  So far I think you can
>>> either keep UTF-8 "as is" or "get it right" (= 3987 + 5890).

You can't keep it as is in a downgraded message.  How about if I just say 
that you have to do something in downgraded messages, the obvious approach 
of leaving it in UTF-8 in EAI messages doesn't work there, and all of the 
currently proposed alternatives have problems.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

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