From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 05:49:29 CDT
In <8UniEBR3cDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>What I'm concerned about is the use of UTF-8 in machine-parsed addresses
>such as newsgroup names. Here any transformation will cause serious
>problems.
Which is why our draft explicitly forbids all such transformation.
Except in the one case of the short hop between the poster/injector and
the moderator, where we have provided a very transparent encoding that
MUST be reversed before the article gets out on the wire.
Note that the encoding in question merely encodes what is already in
UTF-8. So it does not affect the fact that newsgroup-names are essentially
in UTF-8.
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