XNews: support for MIME-encoded headers [was: Need help in choosing a newsreader]

Anton Shepelev:

I was quite amazed to find out that neither XNews
nor Outlook Express are capable of posting arti-
cles with titles in Russian corectly. They come
out as sequesnces of quesion marks, one per sym-
bol, no matter what encoding is chosen. Of
course, I might have failed to confugure them
properly, in which case advice will be welcome.

A colleagie of mine has found how to enable it in
Outlook, but I still can't do it in XNews, which is
otherwise so much more preferable, so hereby I ask
Luu Tran and everybody else who can help me, to let
me know if XNews implements RFC 2047.

If it does not, then I'd like to make a correspond-
ing feature request.

Anton

P.S.: Thanks for the great newsreader Luu. It was
XNews through which I first entered Usenet in
my university days, when I still had Win98SE
and a dial-up connection and needed to consult
the LaTeX gurus at a fido7 group, because ev-
erybody else was doing their diplomas in Word
and I had said to myself: enough of this mis-
ery! I'm gonna do my diploma in LaTeX.

I remember the girls reacting funny to my
proposing: "Let's write our diplomas in La-
TeX!"
.

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