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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <Bz9Bw3.2I6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Keywords: ISO8859 ISO10646 8bit
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <tbmqph8@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <sckkVB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:16:50 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <sckkVB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
-
- >> "Just send 8-bit email" does not work reliably now and never will.
-
- >I've been listening to this "tale" very often... ;-)
- >I still know it not true. =;^)
-
- Nonsense.
-
- I *KNOW* of at least 3 systems (combinations of OS + hardware) that
- will flat out crash if offered certain fairly common 8-bit
- ISO-8859-like characters. I'm not going to say which ones in public
- because some lurker would go and use this to crash someone else's
- machine maliciously.
-
- >This is your view. I've been told things like that in Germany, too
- >regarding 8-bit clean news paths, and it was simply untrue. Admins
- >have been very cooperative and after only a few months the major
- >"toublemakers" were 8-bit clean.
-
- Some NNTP sites are 8-bit now, many will migrate to 8-bit
- eventually, some cannot migrate to 8-bit because of limitations of
- OS/hardware or the age of the system.
-
- >Right. I'd prefer not to talk to much but do *implement* 8-bit clean
- >paths everywhere. It is much easier than most pessimistic people try
- >to make us believe. Still it's a lot of work, though...
-
- There are TWO issues here.
-
- One is to implement wider bit transport which is nice and is useful
- but is NOT necessary in a strict sense and is certainly not sufficient
- (one still needs to know WHICH 8-bit or 16-bit character set was used
- by the author).
-
- The second is to have a standard for marking the contents of
- messages in standard headers using standard syntax and standard
- tokens. If I understand Henry correctly, he is putting together a
- draft, based on MIME, that addresses this second issue.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-