From: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nntp servers with multibyte group names?
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:34:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efb65kf6.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftvm6zmn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
Eric writes:
>> "o Although this specification allows UTF-8 for newsgroup names, they
>> SHOULD be restricted to US-ASCII until a successor to RFC 1036
>> [RFC1036] standardises another approach. 8-bit encodings SHOULD
>> NOT be used because they are likely to cause interoperability
>> problems."
>>
>> - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977#section-10
>
> Interesting! Thanks for that (I guess I could have looked that up
> myself).
I was curious to find the answer, as I apparently have a hobby of
implementing an nntp-interface on average every half a decade :-)
> I will assume for now that group names are coming in as ascii, but
> maybe leave a note in the code.
Why not assume utf-8 (of which ascii is a subset, I believe)?
Best regards,
Adam
--
"Sadly, these days, if you know the difference Adam Sjøgren
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you're a renaissance man."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-27 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-27 19:55 Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-27 20:18 ` Adam Sjøgren
2018-11-27 20:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-27 20:34 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2018-11-27 20:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-27 21:02 ` Adam Sjøgren
2018-11-27 21:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-28 0:44 ` Russ Allbery
2018-11-28 1:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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