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Article #411Re: 8-bit news
From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:20
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:20
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In article <Bz18wz.55q@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes: >Perhaps the best approach for the American community would be to avoid >using the ESCAPE that is problematic in netnews and the 8th bit that >is problematic in both email and netnews, and to use a Viet-like or >Simonsen-like method, possibly together with an alt.chinese.text-like >method. (And this is what you've started doing, right, Steve?) Erik, I hope you are really intending that we collectively move to some MIME-derivative that can handle these existing interim formats, the public non-standard formats you've mentioned, and also that will handle the formats we should all be headed towards (namely ISO-8859-* and ISO-10646) along with non-text encodings for GIF, TIFF, and audio. Ran atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) Subject: Re: 8-bit news Message-ID: <Bz9C20.2n7@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC References: <1992Dec4.182706.1411@athena.mit.edu> <Bz18wz.55q@poel.juice.or.jp> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:20:23 GMT Lines: 18