Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!isaak!woerz From: woerz%isaak@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit mail Message-ID: <759@isaak.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 89 22:48:53 GMT References: <557@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <321@texas.dk> Sender: news@isaak.UUCP Reply-To: woerz%isaak@isaak.UUCP (Dieter Woerz) Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, West-Germany Lines: 16 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! Why do we have to wait? As far as I know, teletex is capable to send all or nearly all characters used in the ISO 8859/1 writing world. Let you MUA convert the ISO characters into teletex when sending mail and convert it to ISO 8859/1 when reading mail. Dieter Woerz ISA GmbH, Azenbergstr. 35 D-7000 Stuttgart-1 W-Germany UUCP: {pyramid!iaoobel,uunet!unido}!isaak!woerz BITNET/EARN: woerz@ds0iff5