Re: nntp servers with multibyte group names?

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Eric writes:

>> I was curious to find the answer, as I apparently have a hobby of
>> implementing an nntp-interface on average every half a decade :-)
>
> Sounds like... fun. But it also sounds like you might be able to answer
> some of my questions!

It is (I like using nntp for e.g. RSS/Atom feeds, and the nntp-model
fits a suprising number of things)! But I have just been either ignoring
the problem or assuming that everything is utf-8.

>> Why not assume utf-8 (of which ascii is a subset, I believe)?
>
> I am miserable at encoding-related programming, it's something I've
> never really had to deal with, and I don't grok it.

I don't understand encoding it works in Emacs at all, so I will have to
defer to someone/where who does.

Having an ø in my last name used to be a challenge. These days things
are converging on "utf-8 or broken" as far as I can tell.

> Thanks for any light you're willing to shed!

Sorry I can't be of any help...


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "Though this doesn't mean changing my sense of               Adam Sjøgren
  beauty. I.e., I don't like it."                        asjo@koldfront.dk