From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in header and body in news
Date: 24 Sep 1999 20:12:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3puz841ra.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "14 Aug 1999 11:11:12 +0200"
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> It appears that the guys from the de.* newsgroups prefer the following
> encoding of non-ASCII (i.e. Latin-1) characters as follows:
>
> - For the body, CTE 8bit should be used, but quoted-printable is
> also acceptable.
> - For the header, quoted-printable encoding should be used as in
> "=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=".
>
> It appears that for posting news, the second requirement is not met:
> the ß in my name is sent as-is.
If you set `gnus-group-posting-charset-alist' to nil, that should fix
things.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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1999-08-14 9:11 Kai Großjohann
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