Re: use of small kana on the increase?

"Don Kirkman" <donsno2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
The headers of Cindy's last previous post that I've received in this
thread, Message-ID:
<1165715409.814993.191350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, looks like it
was injected into Google via Road Runner; I wonder if that's got
anything to do with the price of fish.

Absolutely sod all I would think.

That post is set for UTF-8 and Base 64.

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.
.

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