Re: Encoding? - MIKO HELP

On 27/5/03 23:24, in article bb0oi6$uln$1-FogMEOs31dotat4ziPANHlKoq+OfwspIAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org, "Chris
Dudley" <[email protected]> wrote:

> andy varganov wrote:
>> On 27/5/03 18:54, in article bb08o4$99k$1-FogMEOs31dotat4ziPANHlKoq+OfwspIAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org,
>> "Volodymyr Metenchuk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Vot chto nam postavili:
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
>>> 
>>> Oni eshe ne znayut, chto u russkih svoj put'
>>> ;)
>>> 
>>> voll
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Chris, can you change encoding of this group on the server to something more
>> cyrillic please? ;-))
>> 
>> I'm not sure exacly what would be standard russian on NNTP, probably KOI-8R
>> with 8th-bit enabled.. Maybe Voll can recommend an appropriate setup.
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
> does nntp even do different encodings ?
> I have never seen any options anywhere to specify that.
> Remember this is a three way setup between the web, nntp and email.
> So need a solution that works everywhere.
> 
> I have spotted that some of the posts here look to be in cyrillic fonts
> to me while others look to be in latin font and others look to be random
> accented characters. Why do some posts work and others dont ?
> 
> We are using INN2 NNTP server and mailman mailing list software - if
> anyone knows of a solution let me know, cos I certainly dont know of one.
> 
> miko
> 

Miko, I don¹t know the solutions (I'm not a server dude) but I did some
googling for you, you lazy sod - enjoy the reading, although I'm not sure
how useful these links are :-)

http://koi8.pp.ru/main.html#main
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2001-October/009867.html
http://www.list.org/i18n.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2294/cyrmnl-e.htm
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html

This is your chance to become an 'International Xaraya Server Expert' - tho
russian setup should prolly be easier than swahili or traditional
burkina-faso, mwahahaha ;)

Andy