On 14-Oct-05 Matt Parker wrote:
[...] This is what is in the headers of mail sent from my mail client (KMail):-
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Looks fine to me. Nothing wrong with quoted-printable.
I tend to disagree with that! QP is pretty clunky and onsolescent, and it can have nasty problems if a message has to pass through repeated QP encoders.
Think a bit about what may happen to
In hexadecimal, 21+1C=3D
under successive conversions to QP.
Nowadays most "intelligent" mail relay hosts translate QP into 8-bit anyway, and if they encounter a host that's QP-configured they translate it back to QP, waiting on the other side to undo that again.
As a test, I just sent myself a message on my own machine, having switched the MUA into QP for the purpose. The first header in the sequence is
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ...
and I've noticed the same thing happens to QP when being delivered to nessie.
8bit is too limited for internationalised messages hence why the world is moving on.
That's true enough; but in the 1-byte world 8-bit is a sight better than 7-bit!
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