Hi Charles,
The real difficulty will be in user agents. I can read the danish group in Opera, but for some reason it doesn't like yours. Ensuring there is a working Path between your server and news.dotsrc.org might be worth a try.
I do not have many feeds (only a dozen) and I do not see the Danish UTF-8 group on them. So I doubt a post to dk.test.utf8-æøå (that is to say dk.test.utf8-æøå) on my news server will go far away... I don't mind creating their group, though. It is strange that Opera can read dk.test.utf8-æøå but not trigofacile.test.υτφ8... I believe the French hierarchy fr.* may be willing to participate in the experiment. Creation of newsgroups are asked in fr.usenet.forums.evolution (see "Noms de groupes en UTF-8" where one person is in favour -- nobody answered that he was against). -- Julien ÉLIE« Un petit pås pøur møi, un grånd bønd pøur l'humanité ! » (Kerøzen)