On 7 mar 2012, at 14:21, J-F C. Morfin wrote:

Nothing in protocols forces me to use an UTF-8 keyboard or printer (as long as punycode is supported somewhere down the line, in the IDNA case).

As the email from Kim was explicitly tagged with information that it was in charset UTF-8 it is possible for you, and up to you and your tools to do the best of the situation. Patrik