While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, cc rolled initiative
and posted the following:

>
> "Space Cowboy" > wrote in message
>
>> However any
>> originating post in Google uses the WESTERN ISO default charset.
>> I spent days in alt.test trying to originate a post in UTF8 but
>> no giddyup.
>
> Stop trying, even if that worked once, that wouldn't the next
> time. A number of people posting on newsgroups using Asian and
> UTF formats say the following free news server is reliable :
>
> http://news.cis.dfn.de/

Which is no longer available for international users. They've set up
news.individual.net for international use.

--
Derek

You know you're a nerd when you have to go and steal the herpes
virus from a research laboratory rather than going out and catching
it in the wild like everyone else.