If there is going to be some restriction on 8-bit characters in news,
be it "no 8bit characters in headers" or "no 8bit characters at all",
...
I think "no 8bit characters in headers" is a reasonable requirement
even if the (majority of) the transfer path is 8-bit clean. Headers are
(today) more for the software than for the user. It's nice that they
are humanly readable (I STRONGLY support that everywhere) but headers
don't have to support full ISO-8859-*.
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