usefor-article-12 November 2003

4.4.2.  Character Sets within Article Bodies

   Within article bodies, characters are represented as octets according
   to the encoding scheme implied by any Content-Transfer-Encoding- and
   Content-Type-headers [RFC 2045].  In the absence of such headers,
   reading agents cannot be relied upon to display correctly more than
   the US-ASCII characters, though they MUST display at least those.

        NOTE: The use of non-ASCII characters in the absence of an
        appropriate Content-Type-header is not compliant with this
        standard, even though such usage has been seen in some
        hierarchies (with no indication of which character set has been
        used beyond the user's ability to guess based upon other clues
        in the article, or custom within the newsgroup).

   Followup agents MUST be careful to apply appropriate encodings to the
   outbound followup. A followup to an article containing non-ASCII
   material is very likely to contain non-ASCII material itself.

--- ../usefor-article-11/Character_Sets_within_Article_Bodies.out          June 2003
+++ ../usefor-article-12/Character_Sets_within_Article_Bodies.out          November 2003