From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 05:38:31 CDT
In <200210212032.g9LKWKtE006294@nic-naa.net> Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net> writes:
>> But the problem with that approach is that people will undoubtedly
>> implement, and make work, *something*, but it will not be UTF-8. It will be
>> "guess the charset", or "we use this code in this hierarchy". Which makes
>> it very hard for big sites like Supernews who want to carry all the
>> worldwide hierarchies, and makes it impossible for people who want to
>> crosspost between those hierarchies (that may not be common in practice,
>> but we do not want to preclude it).
>Was there another goal, other than "carry all", or "crosspost arbitrarily",
>for having news? I thought there was, but I could be mistaken.
Eh? I don't understand what you are saying.
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