🚀 go-pugleaf

  - hi; in dipspc article, <1189486887snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
      pete@nospam.demon.co.uk up and announced (in parts):
>          [with apologies for following-up to self]:
>
>>There's not a lot one (or rather Snews) can do with UTF-8 
>>encoding.  I know very little about it, but it appears to use 
>>three bytes to encode certain "non-standardised" characters, 
>>and to be becoming ever more ubiquitous.  I also don't know how 
>>feasible it would be to add UTF-8 support to Snews but would 
>>guess at the very least it would be non-trivial.
>
>I've done a bit of utf-8 research (RFC3629 if anyone's interested) 
>and ISTM that it is not a charset after all but rather an 
>encoding for Unicode characters (and a relatively simple one to 
>decode/encode too).  So header lines like e.g.
>
>       Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>are something of a misnomer.  Anyway, if there is a simple way to 
>map Unicode characters into one of the ISO-8859-x sets that Snews 
>already knows about, it might just be possible to do a partial, 
>working implementation.  And worthwhile as this encoding seems to 
>be growing in use.  The two-byte sequences should be fairly 
>straightforward, the three- and four-byte less so :-(
>
>Off to investigate Unicode now...
>
	- that took me a bit by surprise, that did - and then it
	wasn't possible to connect to demon by dial-up a] reliably,
	b] on 08440416662, c] on 08440996662, and/or any other way
	from 015395-624xx and/or 01524-3821xx for...

	               [it still isn't :-((]

	- um, any update on the ease (or otherwise) of tackling
	this, and possibly even upon your having accomplished it,
	awaited with interest (but i cannot promise bated breath).

	- your next task, "should you choose to accept it", is to
	identify the simplest way of allowing the use of regexps
	in the news kill file... *g*

	- love, ppint.
	  [the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
	   please change the "f" to a "g" and drop the "v" if you
                      wish to cc. or e-mail me.]
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