Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!qt.ipa.fhg.de!henke From: henke@qt.ipa.fhg.de (Juergen Henke) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: 8-bit characters, how to use ? Message-ID: <4bCj1xIP8000AjQWhD@lazy> Date: 9 Nov 90 18:07:57 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Excerpts from mail: 9-Nov-90 Re: 8-bit characters, how t.. Craig_Everhart@transarc. (1041) > Does 8-bit RFC822 mail really solve any problems? What are recipients > in Germany supposed to do with Swedish e, since their displays can't > handle it? What are they supposed to do with upside-down question marks > (?)? We would always have the problem of the ``local extensions,'' no? > I could imagine doing worse things than reading the local-extensions > table in unscribe. > Craig Craig, there's of course a problem with the swedish e (e| ?), but most of the special (country specific) characters are in ISO 8859. So a 8 bit RFC 822 would help a lot to those outside the (native) english speaking world... J|rgen P.S.: You notice the u-umlaut in my name ? :-) or :-( ? _________________________________________________________________________ Juergen Henke, e-mail juh@qt.IPA.FhG.de, PSI-mail PSI%4571109306::JUH_IPA Fraunhofer-Institut f. Produktionstechnik u. Automatisierung Eierstrasse 46, D-7000 Stuttgart 1