From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings?
Date: 03 Sep 1998 03:15:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3btoxa4ew.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "02 Sep 1998 13:24:52 +0200"
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>>>>>> On 02 Sep 1998, Jost Krieger said:
> Jost> So how should gnus know they are Latin1 characters ?
> Hm. Maybe I confused HTML with news, here. In the HTML standard, it
> says the document is Latin 1. I thought the news RFC also specified
> Latin 1 as the default charset? Who knows more?
News specifies article body format follows RFC 822, which specifies 7bit
ASCII. Technically, MIME isn't even legal in news.
In practice, most people use MIME or just send 8bit.
It looks likely that the new news RFC will specify UTF-7 as a default but
strongly encourage use of MIME charset tagging.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-03 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-02 7:33 Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-02 9:49 ` Jost Krieger
1998-09-02 11:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-03 10:15 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
[not found] ` <x7soi9yx8s.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 16:47 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <x7k93lw2lm.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 17:22 ` Russ Allbery
1998-09-03 20:48 ` Richard Coleman
1998-09-03 17:35 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-09-03 10:27 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-02 10:42 ` jean-luc cassel
1998-09-02 12:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-07 20:15 ` Kai Grossjohann
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