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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.