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Re: Re: International character set requirements needed

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From: Jacob Gore
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 1991 22:59
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/ comp.text / keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) / Jan  1, 1991 /
> Should one then just say "Use ISO 8859"? Well, what ISO 8859?
> There are several parts, latin 1, latin 2 (eastern Europe),
> Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew (among others). The abovementioned
> character 0162 has different meanings in these different character sets.

Specify the character set in the header.  For example,

	Char-Encoding: ISO-8559-Latin-1

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Subject: Re: Re: International character set requirements needed
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Date: 1 Jan 91 22:59:50 GMT
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