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- From: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Message-ID: <kkZNVB5w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 11:13:07 MET
- References: <id.U0PV.CJH@ferranti.com>
- Organization: The Blues Family
- Lines: 28
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- peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec7.184546.11068@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) wri
- > > A significant and growing number of people are using 8859/1 already,
- >
- > Another problem is people using *IBM-PC* 8-bit characters, *in headers*.
-
- Yuk! Allthough I'm sitting in front of an IBM PC clone using
- IBM Code Page 850, I would never think of bothering the rest
- of the world with characters between 128 and 159. That's why
- I convert between CP850 and ISO 8859-1.
-
- > This is common, apparently, in Fido. There is a character in Houston who
- > has been using the name "(R<e dieresis><centered dot>gan)@???.fidonet.org",
- > using the PC encoding. I think that involves characters *outside* the G0
- > and G1 sets, too.
-
- Right. Who maintains the fidonet/usenet gateway software?
- I'd love to send him/her two nice conversion tables from/to
- ISO 8859-1.
-
- Kosta
-
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- sw authors: please support ISO 8859-1! Σ÷ⁿ─╓▄▀=aeoeueAEOEUEss
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