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

[Brian Hernacki]

Petter Nilsen wrote:
> > > 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..

The protocol need not be exposed to the users. A client UI could show
the user "nihongo" (in kanji) in a language selection list but send
"japanese" across the wire a parameter to the LANGUAGE command.

I believe some official list in ascii (UTF8) of common language names.
Isn't this what IMAP does?

--brian