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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <16026@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 04:59:52 GMT
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The NNTP extensions (that I'll get into an RFC soon, I promise!) support
a CHARSET extension and 8-bit transmission, so it can allow the transfer
of (i hope) any character set.  Perhaps news will follow suit.

A standard for transmitting multi-byte characters would presumably
specify what order the bytes are to be sent; that is NOT properly part
of the news system nor of NNTP.
	- Brian