From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 11:20:00 CDT
list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) wrote on 08.10.99 in <7QS79b4JcDB@faerber.muc.de>:
> Terje Bless <link@tss.no> schrieb/wrote:
> > Let's cut this a bit short and say: Just trust me, ok?
>
> The question is not whether to allow Unicode characters in Newsgroup
> names, but how.
>
> UTF-8, being the most obvoius solution, has some disadvantages and
> compatibility problems that could be avoided.
Not really. UTF-8 has these problems because I18N is a hard problem. You
can't really avoid them unless you avoid I18N.
MfG Kai