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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <3721@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Jul 90 02:34:12 GMT
References: <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <+7Y$AV&@rpi.edu> <759@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>We have an 8-bit standard: ISO 8859.  Great for us Western
>European-American types.  It doesn't help the fj newsgroups much.
>(or kremvax!gorby)

ISO 8859 doesn't help the "fj" newsgroups much, but "kremvax!gorby"
could use ISO 8859/5, Latin-Cyrillic alphabet.

Did you perhaps mean "ISO 8859/1" rather than "ISO 8859"?