On    Mon,    11    Dec    1995    13:07:48    -0500    Mark    Hunnibell
<[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>Even if  they *did* send  them out as  8-bit characters, there  are many
>systems  along the  way in  Internet that  still strip  8-bit characters
>completely from e-mail, so they would not get to everyone.
 
Such systems are very rare in  non English speaking countries. People did
not wait  for MIME to exchange  mail in their own  language; they've been
doing this  for a very long  time, sending the data  unencoded and making
sure they selected software that could handle it.
 
  Eric