Tom, WG I am *not* kidding. If we go for an encoding header, why not use MIME?
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Petch > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:05 AM > To: Chris Lonvick > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Syslog] #5 - character encoding (was: Consensus?) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Lonvick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rainer Gerhards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:18 PM > Subject: RE: [Syslog] #5 - character encoding (was: Consensus?) > > > Hi Rainer, > > > > Let's use this email as an example. :) There is no > indication that I'm > > using US-ASCII encoding or that I'm writing in English. > > Actually, Chris, there is; when I receive this e-mail, the > header contains > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > so implicitly or explicitly you are telling me it is US-ASCII > > By contrast, e-mails from Rainer, contain > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > This reply is in charset="iso-8859-1" but by default, my > Windows MUA replies in > the charset the message came in, so that > replying to you I could not then spell Müller properly which > I could do to > Rainer. On the > other hand, when replying to you, Windows inserts > to denote > the incoming text > which it suppresses when I reply to Rainer. And some e-mails > I receive are not > in US-ASCII but lack the charset= in which case the display > on screen is > somewhat or totally corrupted. > > So MIME does an ok job but can be fooled by the rest of the > system; if we can do > that well with syslog, we should be proud of ourselves. > > Tom Petch > > > _______________________________________________ > Syslog mailing list > Syslog@lists.ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog > _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
