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- From: berger@imag.fr (Gilles BERGER SABBATEL)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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- Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:28:12 GMT
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- dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
-
- >So use something like MIME which can cope with a much bigger character
- >set than 8-bit and begin to solve the problem for all (human, natural)
- >languages.
-
- >IE, don't be parochial and assume that because it solves *your* problem
- >it's more then moving from a 1% solution to a 1.1% solution...
-
- Sure! But the problem is that we could relatively easily move to
- ISO-latin-1, (many softwares appear to work with 8 bits chars) so that
- it would be a first step to experiment and solve the problems. Whenever
- news solutions are to be found, they must take in consideration the
- existence of languages which does not use ISO-latin-1, ie. conversion tools
- should be general enough.
-
- >(An Englishman telling a Frensh person not to be parochial. B^>)
-
- >And funnily enough, MIME doesn't need 8 bits and the changing of all
- >the existing software, does it? It may be ``simply anachronistic'' to
- >be forced to converse in accentless Latin script to communicate
- >electronically, but is it *clearly* *simply unreasonable* to make
- >*everyone* convert *all* their mailer/news software to solve your
- >unique problem when there is a solution which is more general and less
- >intrusive.
-
- First, ISO-latin-1 appear to require a minimal conversion of softwares,
- as many system work without modifications (this is the case for C-news
- with nntp-1.5.11, and newsreaders such as nn, tin, xrn, rn). Second,
- it is only required for people who use such character sets. I would
- not mind using standard ASCII chars to write english... and I am not
- able to write japanese at all! So, the use of ISO-latin-1 in France
- would not disturb anybody outside of France, and it contributes to the
- solution of the problem - at least it poses it!
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- Gilles BERGER SABBATEL Tel: (33) 76 57 46 13
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