Re: darft v0.1 newgroups

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From: KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Date: Mon Nov 03 1997 - 06:03:38 CST


Kai Henningsen schrieb:

>OTOH, I don't think there really is any technical justification left even
>for this rule. Limit total newsgroup name length to 255, and leave it at
>that, would be my preferred solution.

255 of what? In the world of UNicode, ISO-10646 and UTF-8 you can choose
between at least:

a) Octetts
b) Sedecupletts
c) 32-pletts
d) Characters (of varying width)

Since some alphabets need three octetts per character in UTF-8, a limit
must not be too restrictive. Though I guess, 510 octetts will satify
all needs.

--J"org Knappen


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