From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 05:58:19 CDT
On 13 Jun 2002 22:42:37 +0100
Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> said...
>
> >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Charles> Yes, but not with those characters in the headers
>
> yes, traffic with those characters in the headers does happen, even in
> some big-8 moderated groups (especially soc.culture.*).
>
Indeed, but it does not fall within the existing standards. Usefor
regularizes that situation, preferably by using UTF-8 for such headers
(though RFC 2047 is allowable, except in the Neswgroups-header).
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