On Sat, 13 May 2017 17:11:42 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Andy Burns
writes:
Paul wrote:

AHA! So there was something I missed there. The char-set is UTF-8.

Yes, usenet seems split into people who hold-on to the view that it
should be kept 7 bit pure ASCII, and those who have moved on :-)

It's not a matter of opinion; there are parts of usenet that _are_ just
7 bit. If you want non-ASCII characters to pass through those bits,
you've got to encode them somehow - UUcode, MIME, and HTML all have
their followers and detractors. Adding headers that _say_ it's something
beyond 7-bit won't help the messages get through the more geriatric
parts of usenet unscathed.

I don't know about you guys, but for Usenet, I'm using Forte Agent
V.1.93, whose latest copyright date is 2002.