On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:12:31 -0500
Bruce Lilly <blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> wrote:
Russ Allbery wrote:
Using RFC 2047 for the Newsgroups header is probably unworkable for a
variety of reasons, most notably being that RFC 2047 is not a unique
encoding format (there are multiple ways to encode the same word), and all
existing Usenet software requires that a given newsgroup have one and only
one textual representation.
That reason is not a show-stopper; Unicode (and therefore utf-8) has the
same problem (multiple representations of the same word), and the issue
can be easily handled by specifying a subset of the general method.
I would like to maintain the convention that 2047 format is only used
for human-readable text, on the assumption that various tools and translators
feel free to decode and/or translate anything that matches =?[BQbq]?[^?]*?=