http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4352





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-05-24 23:03 -------
Just to reemphasize, if this were Mozilla, I'd tag it as "advocacy" and try to
convince Yahoo to get their act together instead.

In any locale where anything but plain 7-bit ASCII is the norm, you will get
occasional false positives. They're probably relatively rare, because (a) the
"weird" characters are not very frequent in many languages; (b) some people are
still scared of 8-bit and will coerce their own writing into uncomfortable 7-bit
renderings, especially perhaps in the Subject: and other header data, precisely
because some systems go ballistic when there's 8-bit data (even more than 15
years after ISO-8859-1 became a widely supported de facto standard for email in
practice!); and (c) tech savvy people in those locales tend to shun applications
which still don't manage to get this right.

It's surprising that Yahoo! can ignore this issue; they're fairly popular
internationally and it's odd that this lack of standards compliance on their
part doesn't actually cause more trouble.



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