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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Summary: yes, but its broken
- Message-ID: <24483@alice.att.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 03:43:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24483
- References: <Bzn9z3.Bs2@exnet.co.uk> <1hg2afINNi81@nigel.msen.com>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- In article <1hg2afINNi81@nigel.msen.com>, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- > Chinese and Japanese already have several encodings into character
- > sets that can be sent around through netnews - the fj.* news hierarchy
- > carries quite a bit of stuff in it right now. As it happens the fj
- > groups chose a 7 bit encoding, but that doesn't remove the need for
- > extra tools (from a Latin alphabet point of view) to read them.
-
- yep, and on every machine i can get at the fj.* news stuff,
- the bloody escapes (033) have been stripped out, rendering the
- SJIS encodings utterly useless.
-
- andrew hume
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