I would recommend that everyone interested in dealing with extensions
to News get and read Henry Spencer's "son-of-RFC-1036" draft.
To be precise, it can be found on zoo.toronto.edu as pub/news.{txt,ps}.
The copy in there is a little old, but there's none fresher -- I really
have to find some time to fold in some of the recent comments and put
a new one together.
I have CCed him on this extensive quote, so that he knows he is being
quoted in a discussion on use of extended character sets in News, even
if it is not on a News-related list.
In general, I'd appreciate being CCed on such things. I manage to read
the 822 mailing list only intermittently these days.
Henry Spencer
henry(_at_)zoo(_dot_)toronto(_dot_)edu