Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!dkuugin!keld From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: International character set requirements needed Keywords: 8-bit data, mail Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 90 16:16:19 GMT References: <7625@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1990Dec20.012516.23623@ico.isc.com> <2566@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1990Dec27.043500.27639@cbnewsk.att.com> Sender: news@slyrf.dkuug.dk Lines: 40 hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen) writes: >< From: heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) >< I can see no reason at all for some stupid mailers to strip off the >< eighth bit (including Interactive's version of sendmail). They don't >< have to - and should not - interpret the contents of the mail they are >< transmitting. This is quite different from the troff situation where a >< program has to know a lot about it's input set. So why don't you guys >< simply open up your mailers and be ready with a 8-bit clean version by >< the end of 1991! >1991? Why not now? The System V release 4.0 mail program is completely 8-bit >clean! (If you can find anyplace within SVr4 mail which isn't, I'll >personally guarantee that the next version of mail which comes from UNIX >System Laboratories will have a fix for the problem.) I have also done patches to sendmail 5.61 and 5.64 to do 8-bit mail. The patches require that you also have IDA installed. Actually it handles quite some different 8-bit character sets like 8859-1 8859-2 and the rest of the 8859 family and vendor character sets like the IBM codepages. In all about 60 character sets are supported in the current release. >By the way, the SMTP protocol doesn't permit 8-bit data. This limits mailers >which must send mail using that protocol. My package also has provisions for sending 8-bit mail thru 7-bit SMTP in an "encoded ASCII" mode. My package is avaliable in dkuug.dk:pub/sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa and ch.shar by anon ftp. By mail you can get it by mailing mail uunet!dkuug.dk!archive Subject: files pub Names: sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa ch.shar Its about 100 kb. Enjoy! Keld Simonsen