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- From: lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit anything?
- Message-ID: <BzAxzJ.7np@sci.kun.nl>
- Sender: news@sci.kun.nl (News owner)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zeus.cs.kun.nl
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
- References: <24355@alice.att.com> <Bz4oDJ.87D@poel.juice.or.jp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:11:42 GMT
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- In <Bz4oDJ.87D@poel.juice.or.jp> erik@poel.juice.or.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
-
- >> if a message was tagged (say as being latin1, or shift-JIS, or big5 or
- >> 8859-9), we have no problem
-
- >The problem is that, currently, not very many messages are tagged.
- >Hopefully, MIME tagging will become more widely used soon.
-
- The next nn version will use MIME header tagging to indicate the
- character set used. It will actually refuse to post 8-bit characters
- without such headers (they will be added automatically if you tell
- nn what character set to use).
-
- By the way, isn't it time to create a news.8bit group :-) This subject
- has been cropping up in lots of newsgroups during the last few weeks.
-
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