Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1983 comp.mail.uucp:3278 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!danpost!danpost.uni-c.dk!recerik From: recerik@alliant.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: 8-bit mail Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 89 11:06:10 GMT References: <557@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <321@texas.dk> Sender: news@danpost.uni-c.dk Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: UNI-C Lines: 11 In-reply-to: storm@texas.dk's message of 7 Jun 89 20:27:55 GMT 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! But making mail messages written in ISO 8859/1 (and other flavors of 8859) work would be very nice. As Kim suggests we may have to invent yet another header line to accomplish this - sigh again ! - erik