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Article #50Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))
From: bmeyer
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00
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Dave Sparks <Dave.Sparks@sisyphus.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "RIL" == Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@kampsax.dtu.dk> writes:
> RIL> ...
> RIL> Does anybody know of an actual problem with 8-bit letters/postings
> RIL> not reaching the destination intact?
>You (naively) assume that ISO Latin-1 is the only way to encode
^ what an ugly 8 bit character that was ;-)
>characters in 8 bits. A standard for mail and news should
>consider the needs of users for whom ISO Latin-1 is inadequate (it
>doesn't even cover all the UK languages). UTF-8 would probably
>do, though users needing non-ASCII characters would have to update
>their software.
You can actually experience interesting effects if one of the search
engines gets you into a Japanese or Chinese newsgroup......
Bernie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102591,d7089fad98aa94b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102591,public X-Google-Thread: 10e72b,d7089fad98aa94b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e72b,public X-Google-Thread: 106ac0,d7089fad98aa94b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ac0,public X-Google-Thread: 11015b,d7089fad98aa94b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid11015b,public From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1)) Date: 1996/12/18 Message-ID: <5983ep$jc5@wombat.hanse.de> X-Deja-AN: 204698562 references: <1458.6918T1140T1676@tomobiki.demon.co.uk> <199612123918simes@amdev.demon.co.uk> <nntp.1996121248485@innovision-group.com><1666.6920T1270T2400@tomobiki.demon.co.uk> <96121502927.phil@stokes.demon.co.uk> <1654.6924T918T2756@kampsax.dtu.dk> <N.19961217.tmwb@sisyphus.demon.co.uk> organization: This is innd taking over... reply-to: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.ip.support.amiga