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In article <1992Oct21.083302.21526@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes...
> 
>In article <BwFGvC.AC9@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
>mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
>|> [in re.  Content-Transfer-Encoding]
>|> 
>|> The test characters (dv|DV\_) left my site as 8-bit ISO bytes. A recent
>|> survey in the de.* groups showed that (after the central site unido moved
>|> from B-News to INN) at least in Germany in most parts of USENET
>|> there is already 8-bit transparency.
> 
>And apparently the path to the UK, though xrn won't display them on my
>machine!

So what. The question is whether you are able to spend the five minutes to
stop your local news sofware from stripping off bit 7 and making use of
ints when reading from files. News-Readers may be changed by and for those
only that want to make use of ISO 8859-1 coded texts. Future news-readers
*may* contain code conversion, but if you don't want to read ISO 8859-1,
just don't read non-english news articles.  ;-)

>|>                                      Both C-News and INN are 8-bit
>transparent
>|> and B-News is the only one that is not. I have been told that the days of
>|> B-News might soon have gone, and this lead to my optimism, that changing
>|> USENET in an official 8-bit transparent service might not be as
>|> difficult (better say impossible) as this would be with the mail system.
>|> [...]
>|> 
>|> As nearly every USENET site uses public domain software, updating them
>|> to 8-bit transparency should be a problem of manageable size!
> 
>There speaks someone who's apparently never managed a news system, or
>tried to help anyone else with their problems.

How do you know? Changing a C source not to contain a "& 0377" and to use
int instead of char at a special location of the code *is* a problem of
manageable size, isn't it?

>All discussions in this group should bear in mind: DISTRIBUTED
>MANAGEMENT DOESN'T WORK IN USENET!

This is not the point.

>(excuse me shouting)

No.   =;^)

Slamnte

	Kosta
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