From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Jul 14 2001 - 14:28:11 CDT
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) writes:
> But under the new rules, it will know _exactly_ what charset it is in -
> namely UTF-8. Indeed, this will need support from newsreaders, but for
> those which currently support ISO-8859-1 that is little problem, because
> the translation between ISO-8859-1 is trivial. Those writing newsreaders
> for China will have to try a little harder, but that is going to be true
> under any scheme.
Note however, that if you have a pure 8-bit header which you can tell
is not UTF-8, you have no help from the fact that the conversion from
iso-8859-1 is trivial, because you don't if it is iso-8859-1. You can
guess whether it is, but you produce least damage if you don't and
let the user handle best as he see fit.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se