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Article #182Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 15:54
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 15:54
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Also sprach Erik Naggum (enag@ifi.uio.no): >Topher Eliot writes: > I basically agree with this, but watch out for time zone names that contain > characters with the high bit on! I don't know that any are in use, but > as far as I know, there's nothing in the (other) time zone mechanisms to > prevent them from being created. > >Except that RFC 822 and 821 specify that Internet mail is 7-bit, only. Which opens for the question: when will they be replaced by specifications that leaves room for 8-bit characters? Having spent of my working days the last two and half years in an eight-bit environment (VMS), coming home to Unix and seven-bit has a flavour of antiqueness of it. Of course it would be even better if Internet mail and similar were upgraded to be capable to handle ISO 10646 as well, if we forget that 10646 is only in DIS stage this far. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se "There is only one success, namely to lead your life in your own way" Anyone who can give a source for this?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America Message-ID: <2341@enea.se> Date: 26 Dec 90 15:54:23 GMT References: <1990Dec18.163218.938@dg-rtp.d> <ENAG.90Dec19142206@svarte.ifi.uio.no> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 22