From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 04:22:35 CDT
In <3D24C968.3000208@certplus.com> Jean-Marc Desperrier <jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com> writes:
>It displays fine inside Google Groups.
>http://groups.google.fr/groups?oe=UTF-8&selm=ag1l0q%24pi9%241%40s1.read.news.oleane.net
>There's another article with the same title, but a ISO-8859-1 body, and
>inside the thread panel Google wrongly displays the title as ISO-8859-1,
>but gets it right in the plain view of the message, where you both the
>title in UTF-8 and the body correctly.
Yes, this is all most encouraging.
>The most interesting is not that.
>I received in my mail box three response from Autoresponder about this
>message.
>This is the same number as when I sent a message with only a 7 bit
>subject.//
>So the forbidden characters did not cause any of the message to be lost.
>But even better, for two of the messages, the title was not barbled and
>arrived correctly in my mail box.
So clearly you are not using sendmail, but it looks like "Mailgate.ORG
Autoresponder System" is.
>Garbled :
>From: "Mailgate.ORG Autoresponder System" <nobody@mailgate.org>
>To: "Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com>
>Subject: Answer from Mailgate Autoresponder (was: sujet en utf-8 :
>accentué ã«ã»ãã fin)
>If you sent the message to a moderated newsgroups in the Big 5, in raw
>utf-8, the headers willbe garbled, and you'll simply learn not to do
>that outside of your local hierarchy when everything is set up so that
>it works.
Most posting of mail to moderators is actually generated by the injectors
of the big ISPs. I don't think they will want to treat the headers
differently according to which group or hierarchy is involved. Anyway,
exactly what we say in our draft is one of the next things to discuss -
just as soon as we are happy with the proposed encoding algorithm I just
posted.
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