Re: [TDR] About standardized (required) English usage

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From: Dick Schoeller, ZKO3-3/Y25 05-Ju...
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 15:03

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>Rewriting is IMHO not needed. A change of mail standard from 7 to 8 bits
>would be much more beneficial (and easier).

>Erik Plesner

Not so easy as you think.  International companies like Digital have offered
8 bit implementations for a long time.  However, there are still people
fighting the change and using mailers that die if they try to handle mail
with the MSB set.

Instead, the Internet community seems to be endorsing the use of MIME for
non-ASCII mail handling.  The stuff would get encoded to a 7 bit encoding
and then decoded by the receiver.  IMHO a wasteful way to do it, but that's
where their going.

Dick Schoeller

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From: "Dick Schoeller, ZKO3-3/Y25  05-Jun-1993 1132" <schoeller@gooey.enet.dec.com>
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