[NNTP] Internationalisation, attempt 2

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon May 2 01:09:49 PDT 2005


maurizio codogno said:
>>   o  Header values SHOULD use US-ASCII or an encoding based on it such
>>      as RFC 2047 [RFC2047] until such time as another approach has been
>>      standardised. 8-bit encodings (including UTF-8) MAY be used but
>>      are likely to cause interoperability problems.
> 
> I would move the last sentence to a separate paragraph. I don't like
> to read in the specifics that an implementation is likely to cause
> interoperability problems... At least, say "Legacy 8-bit encodings...".

I've made it "At present, 8-bit ...".

> As for the first sentence, is there a simpler way to assess that in
> future other encodings may be standardises? I am confident "Until such
> time as" is good English, but I find it difficult to understand it.

Sorry, but I can't think of another way of phrasing it succinctly.

> >   o  Where an article is obtained from an external source an
> >      implementation MAY pass it on, and derive data from it (such as
> >      the response to the HDR command), even though the article or the
> >      data does not meet the above requirements.  Implementations MUST
> >      transfer such articles and data correctly.  (Nevertheless, a
> >      client or server MAY elect not to post or forward the article if,
> >      after further examination of the article, it deems it
> >      inappropriate to do so.)
> 
> Could you state that if it decides to pass it it must do it verbatim?
> Otherwise some implementation could choose to "rectify" the non-standard
> header value, and this would be a Very Bad Thing.

Hmm. Do we want to forbid recoding of articles as they arrive? Obviously
the HDR data must correspond to the article as it would be delivered.

Opinions needed before I touch this wording.

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