Subject: [EAI] rfc5336bis

From: Shawn Steele <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:24:52 +0000

Confused about 3.5 #1 – I know some of this has been discussed before.

If the server’s supposed to support UTF8SMTP, and there’s no BODY parameter, I’m confused why we’d say the header is UTF-8 but the body is ASCII.  It seems like if the header has UTF-8 in it, then it would be safe to say the body is then UTF-8.  UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII for these purposes, so it doesn’t even matter in the case where there’re no 8-bit bytes in the body.  If the server is assuming 8-bit bytes in the header are UTF-8, it seems that making the same assumption in the body would be no riskier?

- Shawn

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