Re: [Nmh-workers] Understanding nmh (aka. What's the goal) [ reallynon-ASCII message bodies ]

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 10-12-07 3:48 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> This is the first that anybody has spoken
> up about this as far as I'm aware, so I was trying to protect backward
> compatibility.

A lot of MTAs just accept the stuff, even though it violates the 
standards. The assumption was 'just treat it as 8859-1'. That sort of 
worked long ago, but not any more.

Now that the whole email delivery chain has had to start dealing with 
character set encodings properly I've noticed a (very) slight increase 
in the number of sites that are rejecting un- and mis-encoded non-ASCII 
text.