From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
Subject: Re: quoted-printable no-go in news?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:59:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3istp1qdj.fsf@home.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863ckuj614.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "07 Apr 2003 15:29:11 -0700")
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> The only acceptable "encoding" for Usenet at large in the text
> newsgroups that I'm aware of is plain 7-bit ASCII, although I imagine
> iso-8859-1 is probably also acceptable. Quoted-printable, definitely
> not.
Though has USEFOR not suggested/recommended that UTF-8 be the default
encoding for text newsgroups. So that current 7-bit ASCII remains
unchanged but also allow for accents, Greek, Cyrillic, Kanji, etc all
within the one encoding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-07 19:43 Matthias Andree
2003-04-07 22:29 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-04-08 5:59 ` Graham Murray [this message]
2003-04-10 17:44 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-08 11:48 ` Jesper Harder
2003-04-10 19:06 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-10 19:39 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-10 23:25 ` Reiner Steib
2003-04-10 20:26 ` Jesper Harder
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