8-bit clean

In computer networking, a system is 8-bit clean if it processes 8-bit character encodings without altering the high bit or treating any byte as an in-band control code. This property can describe both a communications protocol and the software and devices that implement such protocols. Although many early email systems only supported 7-bit data, the vast majority of modern email systems are 8-bit clean.

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