From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 06:09:16 CDT
In <8VY2SU43cDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>(RFC 2047-enabled newsreaders exist today and can handle -- i.e. display
>the characters displayable on the current terminal -- multiple charsets.
>Newsreaders that automatically detect UTF-8 and a leagacy encoding may
>exist, too. But these are not those newsreaders for which you claim UTF-
>8 has advantages -- these newsreaders don't understand RFC 2047 nor can
>they detect different charsets.)
To be fully compliant with out draft, newsreaders MUST be able to handle
both UTF-8 and RFC 2047 (i.e. in a sensible fashion - they may not all be
able to display the more obscure charsets).
Of current newsreaders, some meet none, some one, and some both of these
requirements. That will change over time.
Note however that recognizing RFC 2047 in Newsgroup-headers is NOT
required (even though some, possibly misguided, agents might currently
attempt it).
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