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Article #313Re: 8-bit news
From: Andrew Hume
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:43
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:43
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In article <1hg2afINNi81@nigel.msen.com>, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > Chinese and Japanese already have several encodings into character > sets that can be sent around through netnews - the fj.* news hierarchy > carries quite a bit of stuff in it right now. As it happens the fj > groups chose a 7 bit encoding, but that doesn't remove the need for > extra tools (from a Latin alphabet point of view) to read them. yep, and on every machine i can get at the fj.* news stuff, the bloody escapes (033) have been stripped out, rendering the SJIS encodings utterly useless. andrew hume
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!allegra!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit news Summary: yes, but its broken Message-ID: <24483@alice.att.com> Date: 26 Dec 92 03:43:25 GMT Article-I.D.: alice.24483 References: <Bzn9z3.Bs2@exnet.co.uk> <1hg2afINNi81@nigel.msen.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 12