Re: 8-bit in newsgroups names

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From: Claus André Färber (usenet-format-list@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Sun Nov 23 1997 - 08:16:00 CST


Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> schrieb:
> They will have to. se.test.?UTF-8?Qse.test.r=XXXXksm=XXXrg=XXXXs is
> not likely to be in the active file.

It get's worse: If we allowed any charset, we would probably get
Newsgroups like:

foo.=?iso-8859-1?q?name1?=
foo.=?iso-8859-1?q?name2?=
foo.=?iso-8859-1?q?name3?=

Now truncate to 14 chars (there may be still such systems around):

foo.=?iso-8859-1?q
foo.=?iso-8859-1?q
foo.=?iso-8859-1?q
    12345678901234

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