> As far as headers go, RFC 2047 specifies a means for encoding non-ASCII > data there. However, 8-bit data in the Maintainer: field currently has > no defined encoding as far as I know, so debbugs can't do this encoding > correctly. UTF-8 will probably be used in the long run, so putting > Latin-1 characters there as you did above will be wrong.
It will definitely be wrong. Also, jennifer/katie won't properly handle raw UTF-8; only the RFC 2047 will work properly unless utils.py gets changed.
