Re: 8-bit characters

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Tue, 8 Mar 1994 08:41:55 -0500

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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.

I agree with the MIME headers. But I would like to point out that
"all the world is 8859-1" is more true than "all the world is ASCII" ;-)
At least linquistically.

More importantly, it helps provide incentive to get news transports 8
bit clean, so other 8859-x variants and even UNICODE will be useable.

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