From: Chris Newman (Chris.Newman@innosoft.com)
Date: Mon Nov 17 1997 - 17:43:13 CST
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> If newsgroup name contains 8-bit characters that cannot be
> interpreted as UTF-8, the reading and posting agetns MAY
> interpret the characters in some other character set, for
> instance iso-8859-1.
The IETF policy on character sets effectively requires that all
text displayed to humans:
(1) Includes a charset label somewhere
or (2) Uses UTF-8
Otherwise, there's no international interoperability.
(it also recommends that such text include a language tag).
- Chris