Re: Latin1 Character Translation
From: B. Vermo (bv@bigblue.no)
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 17:21:36 +0100
In article <JfjN0sRO7cbf092yn@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>,
zifnab@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de (Heiko Nock) wrote:
|Is there a special reason, why character translation to ISO Latin1 is
|only applied to the message body, but not to the subject line ?
|
Yes - the applicable standards do not allow 8-bit characters in header
lines. Only a subset of ASCII is allowed in headers, and other characters
have to be encoded according to a rather messy protocol.