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Re: non-Latin characters on the net

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From: Bill Trost
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:38
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In article <19AUG199215203855@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu> csc_alex@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (ALEXANDRE KHALIL) writes:
   X-Lunar-Date: 4 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes since the full moon

Cute!  Where'd you get that?

     Is there a way to edit/e-mail/news-post messages in various non-Latin 
   alphabets - say Hebrew, Cyrillic and Tamil - concurrently.

While I'm certainly no expert on the topic, I culled the following
from the MIME "RFC" (labeled "RFC-XXXX" on my copy, although rumor has
it it's gotten a real number by now).  These are for use in the type
text/plain, at least.  It might be supported with text/richtext, too
-- I didn't check that closely.

            The defined charset values are:

                 US-ASCII -- as defined in [US-ASCII].

                 ISO-8859-X -- where "X"  is  to  be  replaced,  as
                      necessary,  for  the  parts of ISO-8859 [ISO-
                      8859].  Note that the ISO 646 character  sets
                      have  deliberately  been  omitted in favor of
                      their  8859  replacements,  which   are   the
                      designated  character sets for Internet mail.
                      As of the publication of this  document,  the
                      legitimate  values  for  "X" are the digits 1
                      through 9.
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From: trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost)
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Subject: Re: non-Latin characters on the net
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