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Re:The Mailocalypse Is Upon Us: Why Isn’t All Mail UTF-8? by dmm on Monday June 15, 2009 @10:05AM (#658398)
Is this guy MIME encoding everything in base64 or quoted-printable?

Last time I checked email could only be 7bit ascii because of many legacy servers.

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Re:The Mailocalypse Is Upon Us: Why Isn’t All Mail UTF-8? by vidarh on Monday June 15, 2009 @10:32AM (#658429)
I'd be interested in seeing estimates on how many such servers are still being used. I've never come across one.
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Re:The Mailocalypse Is Upon Us: Why Isn’t All Mail UTF-8? by jrockway on Monday June 15, 2009 @12:26PM (#658605)
Indeed. This was a problem in 1990, but amazingly, it's not 1990 anymore.
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