Re: MIME and "weird" conversions (TAB -> =09)

["Andrew P. Kokarev" <andrew@skfgvc.pyatigorsk.su>]

Jerzy Sobczyk writes:
> > > 	I am curious, how do you solve the 8-bit character problem in the
> > > 	Russian ?  "Just-send-8-bit" or are there any plans to jump to the
> > > 	MIME-bandvagon ?
> > 
> > For now, "just-send-8-bit". There is some software using
> >  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
> > but it is still not in common usage.
> > And SMTP-servers...
> > ....neither sendmail 5.65, nor 8.6.x commonly used here implement
> > 8BITMIME, so they just quietly send and accept 8-bit mail.
> > Just as anywhere else, I believe. Is your version of Zmailer the only
> > 8BITMIME-capable software now?
> > 
> I was sure that ISO-8859-5 is Latin/Cyrillic, isn't it?

It is, but it is also dead standard. Almost nobody uses it.
In Relcom we (200 000 users, they say) use koi8-r (RFC1489).

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