From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Fri Nov 21 1997 - 16:56:52 CST
Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com> writes:
>(1) Use UTF-8 only (at least for Newsgroup names in NNTP -- names in the
>Newsgroups header probably need to be RFC 2047 for news->mail gateways)
Which is a good argument for encapsulating the article in the bpdy
of the mail, and not mixing up news and mail headers. Any attempt
to mangle the Newsgroup header is likely to cause problems, although
the impacts are likely to be smaller in this case.
(By the way, even if mail apparently will continue to outlaw 8-bit
in headers, also mail techology is making progress, and most of
the time 8-bit works no matter what the standard say. I would
expect this trend to continue, making the news->mail thing a
non-issue in real life.)
>(2) Use MIME header encoding (RFC 2047)
In one word: No.
>This has the advantage that any proper news client has to support this
>anyway (unless it is believed possible to force all mail->news gateways
>to do the conversion to UTF-8 in headers).
They will have to. se.test.?UTF-8?Qse.test.r=XXXXksm=XXXrg=XXXXs is
not likely to be in the active file.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se