Re: 8-bit anything?

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From: Luc Rooijakkers
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:11

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In <Bz4oDJ.87D@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:

>> if a message was tagged (say as being latin1, or shift-JIS, or big5 or
>> 8859-9), we have no problem

>The problem is that, currently, not very many messages are tagged.
>Hopefully, MIME tagging will become more widely used soon.

The next nn version will use MIME header tagging to indicate the
character set used. It will actually refuse to post 8-bit characters
without such headers (they will be added automatically if you tell
nn what character set to use).

By the way, isn't it time to create a news.8bit group :-) This subject
has been cropping up in lots of newsgroups during the last few weeks.

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