[Email-SIG] koi8 and base64

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:15:46PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:03:39AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > koi8-r is an 8-bit character set; it MUST be encoded either with 
> > Quoted-Printable or Base64 in order to make it through 7-bit email 
> > gateways.
> 
>    I have not saw a 7-bit gateway for quite a number of years.

   And, btw, this is a job of smtplib, not email. If two SMTP MTAs
announced to each other that they are 8bit clean - there is no need to
encode anything. So let the email package don't do unneccessary work.

Oleg.
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