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SubjectRe: Whining about MIME formatted email
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:

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> That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
> No problem, '=' is a standard character.
>
> My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
> so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
> underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
> and both braces.

That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you
feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and
_your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was
shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and
probably other charsets too, never tried).
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