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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news (was Re: Commodore keyboard layout.)
- In-Reply-To: michael@chpc.utexas.edu's message of Sat, 21 Nov 92 19: 15:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <TT.92Nov22223332@tarzan.jyu.fi>
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- <1992Nov21.191545.14530@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:33:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.191545.14530@chpc.utexas.edu> michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke) writes:
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- > It is a real pleasure to read texts that have real umlauts
-
- I don't know how much this has been discussed in the other groups
- this has been cross-posted to, but we experimented with it in
- soc.culture.nordic some time ago (was it last spring?) and
- discovered that news goes 8-bit-clean to more or less every
- country, however at least in the USA there are a few major (?)
- nodes that strip the 8th bit (one correspondent told he got
- them sometimes right and sometimes not, depending on which
- route the article happened to take). Mail is much less
- reliable in this regard, although at least all international
- links tried were 8-bit-clean.
-
- Nonetheless, according to some RFC any article containing non-ASCII
- characters is non-conforming. The way I read it there is no explicit
- requirement statement about what should be done to such articles,
- however, so I'd say an implementation is at liberty to junk them,
- strip the high bit, or forward them unaltered (guess which I'd prefer :-)).
-
- Anyway, here's a sample of umlauts &c: Σ÷ⁿσ°µ─╓▄┼╪╞▀■≡▐╨.
- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
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