Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:01:12 +0100 (MET)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: ietf-drums <drums@cs.utk.edu>,
        Mail and News integration mailing list <mailnews-l@segate.sunet.se>
Subject: Re: The use of 8-bit 
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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> The problem is that you are wrong about what character set gets
> used. The Russians are using COI-8. Chinese are using several
> different encodings of their characters. ISO 8859-1 isn't the only
> thing in use by far.
> 
> Henry Spencer's long neglected draft on News formats had the bright
> idea of saying that consenting subnetworks of Usenet could use
> whatever character set they mutually agreed to...

Well, what I was discussing was not to prescribe any character
set as the only permitted one in news, only to discuss whether
one might designate ISO 8859-1 instead of USASCII as the default
character set in news.

I also discussed whether the mail rule that all transported
messages have to be 7-bit encoded is necessary in news, at
least in Europe 8-bit characters in news is very common and
do not seem to cause any problem.

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme