Re: [VCARDDAV] Default charset

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Mon, 22 February 2010 15:05 UTC

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Marc Blanchet wrote:

> Cyrus Daboo a écrit :
>
>>       Applications MUST generate vCard data in the UTF-8 charset and
>>       MUST accept vCard data in the UTF-8 or US-ASCII charset.
>
> Why should we not stick with UTF-8 only?

I think accepting US-ASCII is Ok, as it is a proper subset of UTF-8. I 
suspect lots of stuff is using it now.