RE: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Bill Kurmey (Bill.Kurmey@v-wave.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 02:25:55 EDT


At 01:11 PM 7/19/01 -0500, Mike Ayers wrote:

> The work has to be done somewhere. Emerging technologies must be
>compatible with existing ones, and some old technologies hang around a long
>time. Really, the disallowing of control characters makes sense, since
>their interpretation in so many exisiting protocols is "wreak havoc upon the
>unsuspecting". You simply can't send these characters around the internet
>and expect them to arrive unchanged.

Does anyone have a (list, web site, reference) which lists which C0 and C1
control codes "wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting" and why?

Bill Kurmey, Edmonton, AB, Canada



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