In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Seth Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> here's what I know:
>
> according to RFC 977, the newsgroups names are supposed to be in ASCII.
>
> some news servers are set up with non-ASCII newsgroup names. (note,
> netscape's old news server did not allow you to do that.)
>
> To fix bugs relating to this, I have used external news servers which
> were set up with non-ASCII newsgroup names.
>
> What ever the news server send us, we treat as latin-1.
Perhaps I should have cc'd you for bug # 9112:
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91112>
Where the underlying base complaint is really that newsgroups names
should be treated as raw 8 bit characters when posting -- in Netscape
4.7 and (according to a test by someone else) Mozilla 0.9.2, there is
an attempt to "encode" the header, which will obviously fail when
posting to a group with an 8 bit name.
BTW -- what servers did you use for your testing?
--
J.B. Moreno
