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From: Claus Tondering
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 09:04
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 09:04
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More and more companies (especially in Europe) are moving from a 7-bit pseudo-ASCII environment to an 8-bit environment (typically based on the ISO 8859/1 character set). Our company has been using this 8-bit character set for some years now. But we have problems with E-mail. Within our organization uucp transfer of E-mail with 8-bit characters works fine, but if our mail leaves the organization and goes to this country's backbone machine, the 8th bit is removed from our letters. The reason, I am told, is that E-mail is based in a set of RFCs that specify 7-bit ASCII as the character set to use, and therefore characters with the 8th bit set are stripped. Why must it be so? Uucp has no problems with 8-bit characters, so why must we restrict ourselves to a standard that is dying anyway? -- Claus Tondering Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark E-mail: ct@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!dde!ct
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!dde!ct From: ct@dde.uucp (Claus Tondering) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: 8-bit mail Message-ID: <557@Aragorn.dde.uucp> Date: 12 May 89 09:04:17 GMT Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark Lines: 17