Charset for newsgroups file

[Russ Allbery]

Felix E Klee <felix.klee at inka.de> writes:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:52:49 +0100 Marco d'Itri wrote:

>> Yes, this is the problem. Whatever you use, it will be wrong for some
>> users. For it.* I'm still using Latin-1 and will probably keep doing so
>> until newsreaders will start to understand UTF-8.

> The problem is that news readers cannot find out what encoding they
> should use when displaying descriptions.

> Anyone: Is an extension planned that solves this problem?

The solution is to mandate UTF-8 encoding and make all news readers
understand that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please send questions to the list rather than mailing me directly.
     <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.