From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36025 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn?= Mork" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus refuses to post to Norwegian groups Date: 26 Apr 2001 12:30:47 +0200 Organization: DoD Sender: bmork@spip.ws.nextra.no Message-ID: References: <3197205409150531@oakhurst.yi.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171681 6405 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21258 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2001 10:30:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21253 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2001 10:30:50 -0000 Original-Received: from challenger-s.online.no (HELO fep2.mta.online.no) (148.122.208.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2001 10:30:50 -0000 Original-Received: from spip.ws.nextra.no ([148.122.193.198]) by fep2.mta.online.no (InterMail vM.4.01.03.21 201-229-121-121-20010307) with ESMTP id <20010426103049.KJMZ1348.fep2.mta.online.no@spip.ws.nextra.no>; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: (from bmork@localhost) by spip.ws.nextra.no (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3QAUlJ08010; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:30:47 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: spip.ws.nextra.no: bmork set sender to bjorn@mork.no using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "26 Apr 2001 08:16:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36025 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > On 25 Apr 2001, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > > Gnus should never encode a newsgroup name. It's not text. There is > > no need to worry about charsets and encodings. Just use whatever > > octet sequence the news server sent in the active list. > > Hm? What if the user enters a value? Suppose the hk.* hierarchy uses > the GB encoding by default, but somebody wishes to post in UTF-8? > (Purely hypothetical example.) Good point. Since anything but 7bit is strictly non-standard, I don't see any other possibility than asking the user. Or maybe try a few encodings first to see if the group exists and only ask the user if all of them fails? Bjørn