(How did the contents of your Newsgroups header get duplicated?)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Katsuhiko Momoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Mosedale wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katsuhiko Momoi) writes:
> >
> >>By the way proposing all USETNET news headers in 8bit to be in UTF-8
> >>is not going to spread any time soon. For languages like Japanese,
> >>there is a separate RFC for the encoding to be used in news/mail and
> >>I don't see it changing any time soon, either.
> >>
> >
> >What encoding has been chosen? Can you post a pointer to the relevant
> >spec?
> >
> It is iso-2022-jp and the relevant RFC is:
>
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1468.txt
>
> This is the RFC which solidified the use of 7-bit ISO encoding for
> Japanese Internet messages. It has been the
> standard message encoding for Japanese since then.
That doesn't seem to conflict with saying that 8bit headers are UTF8,
in fact it seems to have kept the door open for UTF8.
--
J.B. Moreno
