MIME Distribution: headers

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

> Distribution can't be encoded like that.  RFC 2047 encoding is only
> supported where explicitly stated that it is.  USEFOR doesn't permit RFC
> 2047 encoding in Distribution; hence, it's not allowed, and such a
> Distribution would be taken as that literal string, not as an encoded
> UTF-8 string.

Oh, that's fine then.  I do not know why but I wrongly thought we had
to use MIME.

I have just tested with Thunderbird:  it encodes the Distribution: header
in UTF-8.
However, Windows Mail (the new Outlook Express) does not encode it and
leaves it as a bytes string.  I have to write "cérémonie" for instance;
otherwise, it keeps "cérémonie".


> It's therefore somewhat unimportant how we handle Distribution at the
> moment given that there's no standards-compliant way of using a non-ASCII
> Distribution.

OK.

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Julien ÉLIE

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