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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: MacToISO utility
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.091139.4930@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <92325.085239BELLVER@EVALUN11.BITNET>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:11:39 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- <BELLVER@EVALUN11.BITNET> writes:
- >This Mac program translates an ASCII Macintosh file (type "TEXT") into an
- >ISO Latin-1 file. Therefore, international characters can be seen properly
- >with an ISO Latin-1 compliant Gopher client, like TurboGopher. Please e-mail
- >me any remarks and suggestions.
-
- Shouldn't this be built into any mac gopher servers or clients? I
- thought it was part of the gopher protocol that any text sent across the
- wire was to be in ISO format. If all clients and servers do this there
- would be minimal problems (well, about as minimal as we're likely to
- get). Or perhaps I'm confused?
- Peter.
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