Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit mail Summary: X.400 and 8-bit character sets. Keywords: x.400, 8-bit character sets, e-mail Message-ID: <733@maxim.erbe.se> Date: 19 Jun 89 02:19:39 GMT References: <557@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <321@texas.dk> Reply-To: rclaeson@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: Yes. Lines: 17 In article recerik@alliant.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen) writes: >X.400 in the 1984 version supports teletex and the IA5 (ASCII) character >encodings. The 1988 version adds some more options, but not 8-bit encodings >like ISO 8859/1. To my best knowledge X.400 in its current status will not >help us poor souls in countries with alphabets with more letters than the >26 letters used in English. - sigh! Really? I thought that x.400 did use the iso 6937 8-bit character set (which is a "true" superset of iso 8859 according to the copy of the standard doc that I have and thus can be mapped into ascii, the various iso 646 charsets, the various iso 8859 character sets and I guess a number of related sets as well). -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB