From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 09:11:02 CDT
On 6/13/02 4:14 AM, Clive D.W. Feather at <clive@demon.net> wrote:
> Charles Lindsey said:
>>> I've seen plenty of articles in big 8 news groups with non-ASCII
>>> characters, e.g. "é", "ö". I've even posted some, and I'm a native
>>> Anglophone.
>>
>> Yes, but not with those characters in the headers (except perhaps some
>> RFC 2047 usage in Subjects, and RFC 2047 is being deprecated for news,
>> and explicity forbidden in the Newsgroups-header).
>
> Um, how do I put £ or € (U+00A3 and U+20AC, pound sterling and euro)
> into the Subject line ? Seems a sensible thing to do in both big 8 and
> local hierarchies.
Which is where encapsulation comes in -- you can't do that (according to the
rules, practical experience is another matter) in mail, but if the full news
article (including headers) is in the body, then you can do the correct
thing according to the rules for news (use raw UTF8) and not worry about any
encoding (probably QP or B64) as they happen at a higher level and thus
won't be an issue when it's injected.
-- J.B. Moreno