Re: To the creator of Xnews: Fix the chartset

Per Hansen <onoman99****opoetikon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a gigantic bug in Xnews that needs to be fixed, i was
actually hoping that this would had been fixed in the 2006 version, but no.
Its the chartset that needs to be fixed propperly. What you get from
europeans are mostly unreadable subjects and bodys because Xnews
does not support ISO-8859-1.

This problem needs to be worked out before the 2006 version of Xnews
reaches Final version.

Sorry, no can do! It's intentional design meant to make ex-OE users
feel at home!

But seriously, a question to people in the know:

Can standard Xnews, i.e. *without* additional software such as
Mime-proxy, be made to *generate* ISO 8859/1[5] (even *without* the
required MIME headers)?

If so, perhaps it's wise to educate the 'offenders' on how to do that,
so that newsreaders which can set a per-group undeclared character
set, can at least *read* the bad postings.

Fixing the problem would be best, but as long as mis###unconfigured OE
is around, the problem can not be fully fixed and not even fixed for the
majority of postings.
.

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