From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 05:59:04 CST
In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020108094815.30645D-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
>Until software is updated to understand encoding, I would guess that ANY
>encoding scheme will break somewhere. I don't see that a a huge major
>problem, because we can't avoid it.
>That said, an encoding which is at least capable of display on ASCII
>output devices will cause fewer problems. Note that "hard to read
>gibberish" is not the same as "can't read or type it at all."
>Take that as agreement with Claus' point above.
I have no problem with a user agent which cannot display the name of a
particular newsgroup even in "weird ASCII", so long as it can generate
followups to that group that go out correctly on the wire.
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