[rt-users] [netaktiv.com #100] RT email and the ISO-8859-1 characters

[Ben Gertzfield]

>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at netaktiv.com> writes:

    Stephane> Almost all the SMTP servers are now 8-bits clean. Nobody
    Stephane> still runs sendmail 5 :-)

This is not true.  SMTP gateways to non-IP networks often depend
on 7-bit email, and treat 8-bit email in extremely special ways.
 
    >> What makes you say that "nobody does it"?

    Stephane> On a typical french-speaking mailing list:

    Stephane> aragon:~/Mail/debian % grep -i
    Stephane> 'content-transfer-encoding: *quoted-printable' french
    Stephane> |wc -l 436 aragon:~/Mail/debian % grep -i
    Stephane> 'content-transfer-encoding: *8bit' french |wc -l 1276

That's hardly nobody, and don't forget that many people will have the
quoted-printable automatically converted to 8-bit by their ISP.

It's still not at all difficult to use quoted-printable encoding
to safely follow standards.

Ben

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