Re: 8-bit mail

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From: Robert Claeson
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 02:19

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In article <RECERIK.89Jun14110610@alliant.uni-c.dk> recerik@alliant.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen) writes:

>X.400 in the 1984 version supports teletex and the IA5 (ASCII) character
>encodings. The 1988 version adds some more options, but not 8-bit encodings
>like ISO 8859/1. To my best knowledge X.400 in its current status will not
>help us poor souls in countries with alphabets with more letters than the
>26 letters used in English. - sigh!

Really? I thought that x.400 did use the iso 6937 8-bit character set (which
is a "true" superset of iso 8859 according to the copy of the standard doc
that I have and thus can be mapped into ascii, the various iso 646 charsets,
the various iso 8859 character sets and I guess a number of related sets as
well).

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!maxim!prc
From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: 8-bit mail
Summary: X.400 and 8-bit character sets.
Keywords: x.400, 8-bit character sets, e-mail
Message-ID: <733@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 19 Jun 89 02:19:39 GMT
References: <557@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <321@texas.dk> <RECERIK.89Jun14110610@alliant.uni-c.dk>
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