From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16637 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings? Date: 03 Sep 1998 03:15:03 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155478 29043 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:11:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA25766 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:18:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAF04775; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 04:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 03 Sep 1998 05:16:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA20241 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:16:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [36.21.0.44]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA25758 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4188 invoked by uid 500); 3 Sep 1998 10:15:03 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "02 Sep 1998 13:24:52 +0200" Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16637 Kai Grossjohann 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)