From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nntp servers with multibyte group names?
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:20:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftvm6zmn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in0i5l6h.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk>
Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
> Eric writes:
>
>> I'd like to test this with the nntp backend, but I don't actually know
>> if nntp is allowed to have multibyte group names. I've gone browsing
>> through some publicly-accessible nntp servers and haven't found anything
>> but ascii-compatible group names, even for servers at, eg, Taiwanese
>> universities.
>>
>> Are multibyte group names even legal?
>
> According to RFC 3977 (Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)):
>
> "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 will assume for now that group names are coming in as ascii,
but maybe leave a note in the code.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-27 20:20 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 [this message]
2018-11-27 20:34 ` Adam Sjøgren
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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