ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions Dealing with internationalization in NNTP

[Petter Nilsen]

In article <344CFAF2.C3B136CD at netscape.com>, bhern at netscape.com (Brian
Hernacki) wrote:

> see us defined something like UTF8 as the default charset used. While I
> heard from people who agreed with me on this, I didn't hear any
> objections. Is this OK? Do poeple think this would be a bad thing? If
> not should we change the draft?

UTF8 sounds fine.

> o a language specification/negotiation extension

> While having the charset well known is great, it still doesn't help the
> Japanese user who gets error messages popping up in English. What I'd
> like to see is something akin to IMAP's LANGUAGE extension. This allows
> client and server to negotiate a non-default language to use for things
> like error messages, newsgroup descriptions, etc. Thoughts?

Ok, this sounds fine, but what _language_ should the LANGUAGE command take the
parameter in?  Native language introduces some charset problems.. 

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