Version:           0.7.2 (using KDE KDE 3.1.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.2 
OS:          Linux

line 115 in file knnntpclient.cpp (and many other places in the source codes)

name = QString::fromUtf8(line);

assumes all input from nntp is UTF8 encoded, but in China, we do always use other encodings, such as gbk etc.

So I think this should be an option: we can choose which encoding we are using to interpret the nntp inputs.