From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5352 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts Date: 11 Jul 2005 17:37:26 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671085 27071 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:09 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!news.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: sparre@hugin.crs4.it Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hugin.crs4.it Original-X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1121096246 2365 156.148.71.67 (11 Jul 2005 15:37:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5494 Original-Lines: 13 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5494 Tue Jan 17 17:35:09 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5352 Archived-At: Andrzej Adam Filip writes: > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts > than UTF-8. What is your opinion? UTF-7 may be marginally better suited, but personally I prefer an appropriate fixed-width encoding (in my case mostly ISO-8859-1). Greetings, Jacob -- PNG: Pretty Nice Graphics