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peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

> In article <1992Dec7.184546.11068@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) wri
> > A significant and growing number of people are using 8859/1 already,
> 
> Another problem is people using *IBM-PC* 8-bit characters, *in headers*.

Yuk! Allthough I'm sitting in front of an IBM PC clone using
IBM Code Page 850, I would never think of bothering the rest 
of the world with characters between 128 and 159. That's why
I convert between CP850 and ISO 8859-1.

> This is common, apparently, in Fido. There is a character in Houston who
> has been using the name "(R<e dieresis><centered dot>gan)@???.fidonet.org",
> using the PC encoding. I think that involves characters *outside* the G0
> and G1 sets, too.

Right. Who maintains the fidonet/usenet gateway software?
I'd love to send him/her two nice conversion tables from/to
ISO 8859-1.

        Kosta

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