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Marc Roger (marc@belnet.be) wrote:
: >
: >  I do not accept 8-bit ASCII posts.  If you must use accented
: >  characters, please use MIME-encoding or the TeX-style ASCII
: >  convention.
: The meaning of this is not clear.

I know. As a first time moderator with unix-only experience it's
not really easy to take a convincing decision in this matter.

For the moment I use these rules of thumb
1. Don't use accents of any kind in articles in Dutch or English
2. ISO-8859-1 characters for French articles.

: - what is "8-bit ASCII" ? ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding
:   standard, period.

That would be classic DOS style 8 bit ASCII although I know 8 bit
ASCII is a contradictio in termino. 

: - if you accept MIME encoding, does it include 8bit "encoding" of
:   ISO-8859-1 characters ? (but then I don't understand why you say
:   you don't accept 8bit "ASCII" postings).  

I would advise ISO-8859-1 characters (input is always welcome, i've
limited experience on Amiga, Windows, Solaris, ... machines). In fact
I've yet to receive something else.

:   I hope you're not even thinking of QP

Good heavens. No I dislike them too.

cu bart

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