On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
It provides for non-ASCII character sets in *some* header fields. (Taken
literally, 2047 makes it impossible to use its facilities in, for example,
newsgroup names.)
As the part which you didn't quote clearly pointed out as the sole case
in the current Usefor draft where 2047 is inapplicable...
No, you referred to "newgroup tags", a curious and non-standard phrase
which has nothing obvious to do with newsgroup names. You may think that
was "clearly" a reference to newsgroup names, but it certainly wasn't
clear to me.
and further
points out that changes to newsgroup names are *not* mentioned in the
Usefor charter *at all*...
Except under the part about non-ASCII characters in headers. "Newsgroups"
is a header, and an important one at that. Or are you arguing that the
charter only refers to some headers? My understanding is that the charter
wording was most definitely intended to include "Newsgroups" as a header
which needed non-ASCII support -- indeed, one of the most urgent ones,
since non-ASCII newsgroup names are already in substantial use.
Henry Spencer
henry(_at_)spsystems(_dot_)net