From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88261 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Adam_Sj=C3=B8gren?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nntp servers with multibyte group names? Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:34:37 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87efb65kf6.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> References: <87tvk270sn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87in0i5l6h.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87ftvm6zmn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543350793 27187 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2018 20:33:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:33:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36471@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 27 21:33:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk2e-0006rW-OT for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:33:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk4N-0007lP-2a; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:34:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk4E-0007iP-KQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:34:46 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk4C-0002di-Vd for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:34:46 -0600 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk4B-00061G-NA for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRk24-0006DE-97 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:32:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org OpenPGP: id=476630590A231909B0A0961A49D0746121BDE416; url=https://asjo.koldfront.dk/gpg.asc Mail-Follow-Up-To: never X-Now-Playing: The Beach, Power, Corruption & Lies (bonus) (New Order) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88261 Archived-At: 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 between a phillips- and a flat head screwdriver, asjo@koldfront.dk you're a renaissance man."