Content-Transfer-Encoding: vs. Usenet

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	news.software.readers, comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject	Content-Transfer-Encoding: vs. Usenet
Followup-To	news.software.readers
Date	2013-07-25 08:15 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<87li4vrr6i.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> (permalink)
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>>>>> Shmuel (Seymour J ) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
>>>>> on 07/21/2013 at 05:13 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> said:

	[Cross-posting to news:news.software.readers and setting
	Followup-To: there.]

 >>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

 >>> !

 >> Well, strictly speaking CTE isn't valid on Usenet,

 > It may not be valid for 1036, but it is certainly valid for 5536.
 > Unencoded ISO 8859-1 isn't valid for either.

	Nowadays, I'd assume that every other newsreader out there is
	going to either support the full range of charsets, whether
	encoded or not, or to have little to no MIME support whatsoever.

	Thus, the issue is rather the RFCs' failure to document the
	existing practice, and not some incompliance.  (Even though
	unencoded data in general may clash with the NNTP provision that
	any non-ASCII data transferred should be in UTF-8.)

	But the whole point is moot, as "7bit" ISO-8859-1 is just a
	fancy name for ASCII, which is valid since well before MIME.

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