"Dan Mosedale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yung-Fong Tang) writes:
> >
> > According to the original NTTP protocol RFC977, it is NOT allowed.
> > However, who only follow the original RFC anyway.
>
> Indeed; RFC 977 is quite dated. I do know that in Europe and Asia
> there are plenty of non-ASCII newsgroup names in use. I don't know
> what encoding(s) they use, but given the age of some of these
> hierarchies, I suspect it's not just UTF8. Added the .mail-news group
> to this post, as I bet some of the folks there know more. Anyone?
According to the latest USEFOR http://www.landfield.com/usefor/
working draft (#5):
> The charset for headers is always UTF-8. This will, inter alia,
> permit newsgroup-names with non-ASCII characters.
Of course, this is a working draft, so 'It is inappropriate to use
Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than
as "work in progress.' "
