MBOX-Line: From mrc+imap at panda.com  Thu May 26 21:19:45 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] History question.
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On Thu, 26 May 2011, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> I have been told that there are some devices capable of reading email
> that do not support UTF-8. Not as in "they can't display it correctly"
> but as in "they can't decode it properly even when explicitly told this
> text is UTF-8."

There is no excuse for a lack of UTF-8 support in any email device
produced after 1996, and especially after the publication of RFC 2130 in
1997.

Sadly, there is no enforcement.

-- Mark --

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