From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 23:19:02 CDT
On 9/24/01 7:25 AM, Charles Lindsey at <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> In <rjbsk3pdgv.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
> writes:
>
>> The _real_ bottleneck is when (or if) MSOE will support UTF-8
>> newsgroup names smoothly. It is unlikely any hierarchies will start
>> using them for real groups before that happens.
>
> I think stage 1 is to demonstrate that it propagates, and that seems to be OK.
Yes, both messages posted to it and the group itself seems to propagate
without problems -- automatic group creation could be better, but will
improve with time (i.e. the latest version of INN does handle it, anyone
have access to a highwind or dialbo server that carries the hierarchy?).
> Stage 2 should be for a few people to try hacking existing newsreaders to
> take it. One hopes some enterprising Scandinavians will now try this.
It's a bit more than "take it" (allow reading and posting), most of them
already do that, what is desired is for them to show the group name with the
correct, non-ascii, characters.
> Stage 3 would then be to persuade Microsoft to provide an emperimental
> version of MSOE. It would probably be easiest to persuade their Danish
> office in the first instance.
I'd say either MSOE or Netscape, and because of Mozilla I think that
Netscape is more likely -- unless you've got a connection in their Danish
office who you think is able to make such a change.
Jean-Marc what's it do now?
-- J.B. Moreno