Re: 8-bit mail

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From: Dieter Woerz
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 22:48

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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!

Why do we have to wait? As far as I know, teletex is capable to send
all or nearly all characters used in the ISO 8859/1 writing world.
Let you MUA convert the ISO characters into teletex when sending mail
and convert it to ISO 8859/1 when reading mail.

Dieter Woerz
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Subject: Re: 8-bit mail
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