Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!vision!chris From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <1146@vision.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 90 13:02:36 GMT References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <+7Y$AV&@rpi.edu> <1990Jul21.091529.29557@lth.se> <1857@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <37713@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK Lines: 31 In article <37713@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: [...] >This means that any new software must co-exist with the current environment. >One way to do this is to have gateway sites do conversion. There are >relatively >few connections between the US and Europe -- most traffic across the Atlantic >goes through uunet. Character translation could be done on the uunet-mcsun >link -- stripping accents on articles arriving from Europe, remapping >characters >so when an American types braces in articles in comp.lang.c, readers in >Europe see braces, instead of language-specific characters. I'd guess that there are far more unpublished links between the US and Europe than might be expected from the maps... Particularly companies with both US and European offices (no, I won't name names :-) Would these sites have to provide gateway-based character translation too? I can't really see that happening, so we'd get a mix of translated and untranslated articles both sides of the Atlantic. Also, stripping accents off characters Could completely change the meaning of the word(s). Other characters (UK sterling symbol, for instance) would have no easy translation (unless you map it to hash, #) in 7-bit US ASCII. Just my pennyworth, Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org OTHER: chris@vision.co.uk LEEDS LS4 2LE | BANGNET: ...{backbone}!ukc!vision!chris England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" --------------