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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1992Dec4.182706.1411@athena.mit.edu> <Bz18wz.55q@poel.juice.or.jp>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:20:23 GMT
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- In article <Bz18wz.55q@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
-
- >Perhaps the best approach for the American community would be to avoid
- >using the ESCAPE that is problematic in netnews and the 8th bit that
- >is problematic in both email and netnews, and to use a Viet-like or
- >Simonsen-like method, possibly together with an alt.chinese.text-like
- >method. (And this is what you've started doing, right, Steve?)
-
- Erik,
-
- I hope you are really intending that we collectively move to some
- MIME-derivative that can handle these existing interim formats, the
- public non-standard formats you've mentioned, and also that will
- handle the formats we should all be headed towards (namely ISO-8859-*
- and ISO-10646) along with non-text encodings for GIF, TIFF, and audio.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-