Re: To the creator of Xnews: Fix the chartset

Frank Slootweg <this@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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)?

It will use whatever the machine's default charset is. For most
western European locales, that's Windows-1252. It coincides mostly
with ISO-8859-1[5].

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.

AFAIK, they already can, but the burden shouldn't be on them.
.

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