From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus refuses to post to Norwegian groups
Date: 26 Apr 2001 08:16:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafoftk9oeo.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hv7l08iusf.fsf@spip.ws.nextra.no> =?iso-8859-1?q?("Bj=F8rn?= Mork"'s message of "25 Apr 2001 22:33:36 +0200")
On 25 Apr 2001, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Gnus should never encode a newsgroup name. It's not text. There is
> no need to worry about charsets and encodings. Just use whatever
> octet sequence the news server sent in the active list.
Hm? What if the user enters a value? Suppose the hk.* hierarchy uses
the GB encoding by default, but somebody wishes to post in UTF-8?
(Purely hypothetical example.)
kai
--
The passive voice should never be used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-26 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-25 16:36 Thomas Skogestad
2001-04-25 17:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-25 20:33 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-26 6:16 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2001-04-26 10:30 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-26 12:59 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-26 13:40 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-04-26 14:13 ` ShengHuo ZHU
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