Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> A discussion at de.comp.gnu showed that following change would be
> welcome; I don't know what the reason was to set it di "nil" for the de
> hierarchy?

I discussed with the guys in de.comm.software.newsreader, and they
explained to me that Latin 1 chars in headers must be escaped -- I
noticed this because I have a Latin 1 char in my name, and this
character was posted as-is rather than the following:

Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=

The people over there also said that it is okay to have Latin 1
characters in the body of a posting, provided the MIME headers are
right.  But there are no MIME headers which apply to the header of a
posting, hence it is necessary to always encode non-ASCII characters
in headers.

So, if you tell Gnus to post Latin 1 characters as-is in de.ALL,
people who post in de.comm.software.newsreader will be flamed :-/

I think we have the following options:

* Tell Gnus to always encoding Latin 1 chars in de.ALL.  This gives us
  correct postings with possibly superfluous encoding.

* Tell Gnus to never encode Latin 1 chars in de.ALL.  This gives
  problems for people with Latin 1 characters in their name.

* Like previous, but forbid use of non-ASCII characters in headers.

I think the second option is out of the question, and I don't like the
last option, either.  My name is Großjohann and not Grossjohann!

What do you think?

kai
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