From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 15:30:36 CDT
Jean-Marc Desperrier <jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com> writes:
> First because most newsreaders commonly used recognise RFC 2047, but
> another reason for the change is surprising.
> It's just that google groups refuses to recognise subject in naked
> ISO-8859-1, and when people respond to messages using google groups, all
> accentuated characters turns to '?'.
> The bad consequence of this, lots of subject garbled with ?, suffice to
> see several of the "dinosaurs" of fr.* who have being fighting RFC 2047
> all along, know favor it over naked ISO-8859-1.
Interesting. I have heard of no such in thing in the Swedish hierarchies.
Then again, give the sad state of these hierarchies, it is more likely
that such discussions would appear on group-by-group basis, and I read
few Swedish groups these days.
But there have always been people who have avoided the use of 8-bit chars
in subject lines. Either by replacing едц with aao replacing it with }{|,
that is with the old 7-bit codes.
I noticed that when I looked on Google, the "original format" gave me
?, rather than 8-bit chars. Then things looked even worse with RFC2047
of course. Never tried to reply to an article, though, as I don't like
to register.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se