Re: Standard for diacritical letters?

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From: Alan P Barrett
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:37

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In article <1992Nov10.111829.26231@ruc.dk>,
robin@ruc.dk (Robin Cheesman) writes:
> I am looking for a standard for representing diacritical
> letters.

I suggest the use of MIME (see RFC 1341), with something like
the following options:

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za                    Bang: m2xenix!undeed!barrett

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