Heh, if clients randomly change character sets than I guess there are a
very large number of possible values.

Given that RFC2047 came out in 1996 it's reasonable that people use
non-ascii characters in titles given that the means to do it in a
compatible way has been around for 17 years.

Luke


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org>wrote:

> On 03/21/2013 11:45 AM, Luke Welling WMF wrote:
> > On the email title sidetrack, it should not create a 4th way.
>
> The pedant in me says there are at least two more ways -- different
> capitalization for "UTF-8".  But your subject line shows another way.
>
> My client displays all of the subjects the same.
>
> Jasper,
> Mine:  =?utf-8?q?Gerrit_Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
> Yours: =?windows-1252?q?Gerrit_Wars=99=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
> MZ's:  Gerrit =?UTF-8?B?V2Fyc+KEog==?=: a strategy-guide
> Ori:   Gerrit =?utf-8?Q?Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_?=a strategy-guide
>
> Maybe mailman doesn't understand when the encoding doesn't start at the
> first character since those are the ones that don't display correctly.
>
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