I see no reason to have news use a different solution than e-mail.
It only creates unnecessary complications for gateways.
Well, basically it is the same, but with some improvements and
enhancements. MIME should be enhanced in the same way, to remedy
the inconveniciences found in 2 years of MIME practice.
Sure. Just make the default charset not US-ASCII but ISO-2022-INT-*
(described in draft-ohta-text-encoding-01.txt) and add more elegant
header encoding and everything will be fine. Just a minor update
and we don't need 8 bit supoort.
Masataka Ohta