From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 11:37:02 CDT
On 7/9/01 4:05 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier at
<jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com> wrote:
> sommar@kairos.kairos.algonet.se wrote:
-snip newsreaders changing from unknown charset to 2047 encoding-
>> 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 ?
Because then there will be the converse rule -- treat 8 bit headers as
unicode. Which means they shouldn't do anything to the header when
replying.
> The true problem is not that the newsreader changes to MIME, but that it
> doesn't know what charset the subject line is in.
No, the problem IS that it is changing the Subject.
> 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.
No. It encounters unknown charset and assumes it's unicode, if it doesn't
handle unicode then it doesn't do anything to it.
If it's not unicode then you tell the person that posted it to SWITCH to
unicode.
-- J.B. Moreno