From: Jean-Marc Desperrier (jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 06:37:34 CDT
Per Abrahamsen wrote:
> The newsgroup dk.test.utf8-æøå has passed, and a control message have
>
> been posted.
This message is in UTF-8 and if your mail client does not decode UTF-8
will be hard to understand, because most of the content discuss how the
same string will be shown in UTF-8 and in ISO-8859-1.
What is there in the control message ?
I saw a PGP signed message in dk.admin that says the name is
dk.test.utf8-æøå.
This message is encoded in ISO-8859-1.
But it doesn't say that in order to create this group you must create it
with the UTF-8 encoding of dk.test.utf8-æøå, ie if you use a tool to
create that group that assumes the character set is ISO-8859-1, you would
need to trick it by creating the group dk.test.utf8-æøå in order
to create dk.test.utf8-æøå, or else you will in fact create a group
dk.test.utf8-渥, instead of dk.test.utf8-æøå.
I'm afraid most newsadmin will create dk.test.utf8-渥 instead of
dk.test.utf8-æøå if they just cut/paste the content of this creation
message.
I don't know what will happen with automatic creation, but if the control
message is in ISO-8859-1, I expect the servers which will not reject it
for invalid character to create dk.test.utf8-渥 instead of
dk.test.utf8-æøå.
Why did you choose a group name which representation in ISO-8859-1 is also
a valid utf-8 string ?
That's really likely to cause confusion.