Re: use of small kana on the increase?

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:32:49 GMT, Paul Blay wrote:

I tried a few test posts from Google groups and found
1. No way to change the preferences for encoding.
2. The page where you enter the text is UTF-8 by default.
You can change from UTF-8 to view the page in something else but the headers
remain UTF-8 even though the contents of the post are in the encoding you change to.
3. In any case if there's Japanese text in the post it turns out as Base64.

Unless there's some hidden trick for (1) that I missed it looks like
Google Groups users just have to cross their fingers and hope that
newsservers will be generous with accepting Base64 encoded posts.

I did the same thing with the same results. No matter how I entered the
Japanese, the post went out as base64. Since I know you can insert an
instruction to prevent archiving ("X-No-Archive:"), I even tried inserting
script type instructions at the top of the post. Nothing worked. So, if
there is a trick, I don't know the right syntax.

Phil Yff
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