J.B. Moreno wrote:
>>This means there will be newsgroups with UTF-8 names, how would/will
>>Mozilla currently handle this?
Has to be tested, but will not work out of the blue, support for USEFOR
has to be created as a RFE in bugzilla.
>>Using Netscape 4.7 it is possible to read, but not post to, such groups.
Interesting.
Netscape 4.7 accepts 8 bit data in most headers, even if just sending it
as is will not always make sense.
> I posted this to the i18n group, and it goes silent, anyone in
> mail-news got an answer?
> BTW -- at least in 4.7 there's no way of setting the group list to
> display in UTF8, so even if you can read the group it's not going to be
> obvious what the group /is/.
Things won't happen by magic, J.B.
If people don't modify their software to take into account USEFOR, it
won't be supported.
Up to now there has been very little publicity over the work of the
USEFOR group.
Now, if people like you go around, and say "hey, we're working on that,
there's a draft, it says this and that, we hope it to become a new RFC
that defines a new standard for usenet messages format in so much time",
it's going to change, and it's a very good thing you're doing that.
Go on, this is the way to go, I hope you didn't take bad the reaction I
had when Thomas Lemoine suggested to create a unicode named newsgroup in
the french hierarchy, I think this is far, far to soon , but I'm in
favor of anything that can be done for the new feature suggested in the
USEFOR draft to be widely adopted.
The trouble here seems to be that everyone working on Mozilla has work
over his head I believe, and adding new, and at least to them exotic,
feature is not the priority, the priority is to fix every major bug in
time to launch Mozilla 1.0.
What USEFOR support in Mozilla would need is external programmers that
would come and help integrating this feature in Mozilla.
