In <3E22AF5D(_dot_)3000405(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
Charles Lindsey wrote:
In <3E1F4614(_dot_)70105(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
.... Drop the raw utf-8 nonsense and move on to somthing that has
a non-zero chance of baing (a) standardized and (b) implemented.
The chances of getting it standardized may or may not be zero. But the
chances of it being implemented are certainbly non-zero, because
implementations already exist.
Please do keep in mind the situation being discussed.
The issue being discussed is whether implementations exist that will
handle Netnews articles as proposed in the Usefor draft. So far as User
Agents are concerned, yes they do. In fact, it appears that the latest
Mozilla can even distinguish automatically between genuine UTF-8 and other
8bit charsets, which both surprises and pleases me.
No, for the comparatively minor problem of gateways from particular
newsgroups to mailing lists, implementations do not yet exist (Rome wasn't
built in a day), which is why we are discussing the best way for those
gateways to handle some marginal cases. The problems are certainly
soluble, but corners will have to be cut. The question is which corners? I
have suggested some possibilities, but you seem unwilling to discuss them.
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