From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 11:05:27 CDT
On 9/25/01 7:39 AM,
Jean-Marc Desperrier at <jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com> wrote:
> Piotr Trzcionkowski wrote:
-snip-
>> Also Netscape 6.1 might be the only client software that
>> will correctly handlethe newsgroup names in UTF-8 without
>> user manipulation, so I'd love to have thename of a news
>> server with open access that carries it to test.
>>
>> Look at http://ppwen.niusy.pl/us.html . Even if Netscape supports
>> Utf-8 in newsgroups names it's not alone.
>
> Well, after testing I've seen Netscape doesn't do it, so News Threading
> Explorator is alone to do that :-) (without special command/downloading
> latest version as with GNUS).
It's not released, but Thoth 1.5.0 (macintosh newsreader) likewise handles
UTF8 in group names, and as unicode is the system charset for Be, it's more
than likely that programs like Pineapple News do so out of the box.
> It's developped with Delphi ?
>
> I remember seeing somewhere that the developper of xnews is looking for
> someone to help him integrate i18n.
> It seems he doesn't know how to display non standard charsets in Delphi.
>
> So if you can at least give him some informations about that.
Yes, he has. You'd need to contact him at: luutran @ geocities.com to find
out the exact details of what he wants, needs and is willing to do.
-- J.B. Moreno