On Feb 7, 2008 9:47 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
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> Robert Burrell Donkin commented on MIME4J-34:
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> Thanks Stefano :-)
>
> RFC2047 covers international encoding in detail. The strictly correct 
> approach would be to create a charset implementation that understood how to 
> encode and decode this syntax. Otherwise round tripping will fail. This would 
> be a reasonable amount of work. It's also a shame that it's not widely 
> supported.
>
> For email, it's important that the original byte sequence is retained to 
> ensure that round tripping works correctly. This probably means some 
> additional work in the parser.
>
> But having had talking around this point, IMHO a patch that allows flexbility 
> is important. IMHO should be ok to commit a patch as outlined by Oleg.

opinions?

- robert

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