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Bill Moyer (ttk@rahul.net) wrote:
: In article <DC3Kyx.9p6@nntpa.cb.att.com>,
: Arun Gupta <gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com> wrote:
: >In article <3uocv9$l7n@sundog.tiac.net>,
: >
: >Can a purely textual interface (such as exists today)  handle something, 
: >like say, posting in Hindi or Arabic or Chinese ?   This is not a
: >rhetorical question.  There are among us those who would like to post
: >(on appropriate groups) in other writing systems.

:   Conceivably.  I don't know if anyone's actually done it to this purpose,
: but it's possible to reprogram the bitmaps of ASCII characters 128..255 
: on the PC from software.  I don't see why they couldn't be made to appear 
: as Sanskrit or Chinese characters.
128 Characters are not enough for some languages!

:   The trick in doing with it what you describe (ie, posting to other
: newsgroups in other cultures' native language) is twofold:  (1) the
: recieving parties have to use a reader which has remapped the GSB-set
: characters appropriately, and (2) the news server has to permit 
: posts which contain GSB-set characters.  The former is doable, but
: the latter may pose a more serious problem, since information known
: ahead of time to be textual is often transmitted between nodes as
: a 7-bit data stream.
The latter is no problem, because news is defined 8-bit-clean! Don't
know the rfc-nbr.. 

And why just remapping characters 128-256? you could remap all of
them, if you'd like, as long as cond. 1 is met (but you are
having this problem with chars 128-256 too!). For more information
hav a look at MIME! 

Thomas

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