Re: 8-bit characters

Tim Goodwin (tim@pipex.net)
Mon, 7 Mar 1994 16:19:19 +0000

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This is going over old ground, but I couldn't let this pass.

> I think using the highest available standard is sensible, provided that
> it does not cause too much problems.
> In this case, using ISO Latin 1 seems not to be too much of a problem and
> thus is the option to chose, IMHO.

Please, let's *not* go from `all the world is ASCII' to `all the world
is 8859-1'.

By all means, use 8859-1, but only with the appropriate MIME headers.

Tim.

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