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- From: erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <Bz5CM5.936@poel.juice.or.jp>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 12:42:04 GMT
- References: <5H7DVB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
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- > What character set(s) do those Japanese language newsgroups use?
-
- They use Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana, and other characters found in JIS
- X 0208, JIS X 0201 and ASCII. Romaji is rare, except in message
- headers. :-)
-
- The characters take up either one or two bytes each. The 8th bit is
- not used. Escape sequences are used to delimit parts in different
- character sets.
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- Erik M. van der Poel erik@poel.juice.or.jp
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