From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 11:38:30 CDT
On 9/21/01 11:47 AM, Per Abrahamsen at <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
> "J.B. Moreno" <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
>
>> On 9/21/01 4:15 AM, Per Abrahamsen at <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> On the client side, MSOE users report that they can see the group
>>> (poorly, the UTF-8 bytes presented as Latin-1), but not post there.
>>> MSOE will MIME-encode the newsgroup name.
>
> Actually, I have seen MSOE postings in the group now. As far as I can
> tell, it depend on the setting. It is possible to post if one does
> *not* set it to UTF-8, but then the name is displayed wrong.
>
>> I know that Xnews 4.04.02 does NOT have a problem reading/posting to a UTF8
>> group, not sure about other versions.
>
> But one has to enter the utf-8 bytecodes, not the characters, right?
> And that is what one sees as well?
Yes, but I believe that you can get the from the group list and it is
automatic for replies.
Which means you can't just type in the group name and have it work, but if
you subscribe to the group it's not at all difficult to post.
This will probably be the case with most programs for the moment.
-- J.B. Moreno