ietf-nntp NNTP and 16-bit charsets

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

>        NOTE: Texts using charsets which represent characters as sequences
>        of 16 or 32 bits (e.g. UCS-2 and UCS-4) cannot be reliably conveyed
>        in the above format.

False.  16-bit or 32-bit character sets that have an encoding that avoids
NUL, CR, or LF work fine.  Possibly a pedantic point, but it wouldn't
surprise me if there are legacy Asian character sets with that property.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>