[NNTP] Re: New NNTP drafts approaching IETF Last Call

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Charles Lindsey said:
>>    Note that texts using an encoding (such as UTF-16 or UTF-32) that may
>>    contain the octets NUL, LF, or CR other than a CRLF pair cannot be
>>    reliably conveyed in the above format (that is, they violate the MUST
>>    requirement above).

> However, the wording in the present draft is slightly misleading, since it
> seems to suggest that the arbitrary mixture of octets might contain NUL or
> naked CR or LF. So perhaps the second sentence would better say:

It doesn't need anything saying. This paragraph is a NOTE. The normative
text is item 1 of the numbered list immediately before it.

* There is a MUST requirement about NUL, CR, and LF.
* UTF-16 violates this requirement.
* The content of multi-line responses is NOT REQUIRED to be UTF-8.

What's so hard about this?

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