[Mailman-Users] post formatting and timing

Michael Welch mwelch at redwoodalliance.org
Wed Jun 27 22:47:13 CEST 2007


Hi everyone. Just as a followup, Katrina on the Eudora list I am on came up with a UTF-8 decoder plug-in.
http://windharp.de/software/utf8iso.htm

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote at 07:22 PM 06/26/2007:
 
>Mark Sapiro writes:
>
> > I don't know if there is a standard that says your MUA 'should'
> > recognize a single <LF> in the decoded text as a line break,
>
>Since it's in UTF-8, Unicode does, Technical Annex #14.  Conformance
>is required by Unicode 4.0.
>
>Of course if the MUA doesn't claim conformance to Unicode there's no
>requirement, and AFAIK there's nothing in RFC 2822 or the MIME RFCs
>that requires conformance to any text standard beyond ASCII.  However,
>most Unicode requirements are considered "best current practice".


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