From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Fri Nov 21 1997 - 16:46:24 CST
Leonid Yegoshin <egoshin@genesyslab.com> writes:
> If "a relayer does not need to know much" and "It
>should just passed the octets around", then we can expect sometime
>to see in active file the newsgroup named
>
> relcom.=?koi8-r?Q?=C0=CD=CF=D2?= (prev relcom.humor)
Why should we? Charles's draft does not propose this, and no news-
reader today that I know of mangles the Newsgroups line in this
way. Subject and From may get this treat, but for some reason even
the most zealous RFC2047 fans have saved Newsgroups.
It is simply not an issue.
> You would not have a problem with Latin1 countries like West Europe.
>The Oriental countries with hieroglyphs have many another problems
>and change of coding probably (I am not specialist in Chinese or so)
>has minor significance. But there are Russian and a lot of alphabet
>languages, which can (CAN !) fit the second half of ASCII.
>Hey, the transmision to variable-length code should have hard problems
>in word-processing software.
I don't know if you are trying to make a general argument against UTF-8
here. That seems to be too late. As I understand, IETF seems quite
committed to UTF-8.
Yes, you can make it decently well with KOI-8, iso-latin-1 and all
that, but only as long you are only in one of these communities.
But in the long run, it is a limited solution.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se