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- Document: FSC-0050
- Version: 001
- Date: 14-Jul-90
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- A Character Set Identifier For FidoNet Message Editors
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- Draft I
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- Thomas Sundblom
- 2:201/114@fidonet
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- Status of this document:
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- This FSC suggests a proposed protocol for the FidoNet(r) community,
- and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
- Distribution of this document is unlimited.
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- Fido and FidoNet are registered marks of Tom Jennings and Fido
- Software.
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- Purpose
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- This document should serve as a guide for the character set
- identifier, CHARSET hereafter, format for FidoNet message Editors.
- The purpose behind CHARSET is related to my attempt to make it
- easier for each reader of a FidoNet message to identify the
- characters used in the messages.
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- Since FidoNet messages aren't restricted to use any special character
- sets in the messages, there will be differences between computer
- kinds and special country dependent characters. To avoid confusion
- in such cases, I'm hereby introducing the CHARSET kludge.
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- There is no need that each FidoNet Message reader should be able
- to understand every possible character set. If the reader can't
- handle the special character set found in a message, then it should
- use a default character set (as most readers do today).
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- Format
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- ^aCHARSET: <Character set identifier>
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- Sample
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- ^aCHARSET: ISO-11
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- Would identify that the message is written using the ISO-11
- character set, which relates to the character set mainly used
- in Sweden.
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- Supported character sets
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- No special character set is specified, but it is recomended to
- use the ISO numbering of the different character sets. Where no
- ISO number is available, an easy to understand code should by used.
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- Character set identifier examples
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- ISO-6 Relates to plain ASCII 7 bit character set.
- ISO-11 Swedish character set, 7 bit.
- ISO-21 Germany character set, 7 bit.
- ISO-69 French character set, 7 bit.
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- Other character set identifiers could be
- PC-8 IBM PC complete character set.
- ATARI ATARI ST complete character set
- AMIGA AMIGA complete character set
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