From: Jean-Marc Desperrier (jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 03:05:38 CDT
sommar@kairos.kairos.algonet.se wrote:
> There are newsreaders out there who will glad change a
> subject line of:
>
> Subject: Nu pratar vi räksmörgåsar
>
> to something completely unintelligible.
> And specifically they are changing
> the implicit charset=unknown to a known charset.
> I have brought this up every now and then, but only gotten truly
> moronic answers. One was that Swedish characters was causing damage
> to Usenet.
Why do you think the current requirement of USEFOR, "send 8 bit headers as
unicode" will help this ?
The true problem is not that the newsreader changes to MIME, but that it
doesn't know what charset the subject line is in.
In USEFOR, it will be required to change it to unicode, so it will take the
unknown charset, assume it is some known charset, and convert that known
charset to unicode, therefore destructing the title.