Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 90 03:06:22 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.030622.12129@looking.on.ca>
References: <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> <4ec122f7.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> <1990Dec22.231146.17316@watmath.waterloo.edu>

It is my understanding that 8 (or more) bit representations of the non-roman
character set are not fully standardized.  Is this wrong?

In such an event, you need two headers -- one for the natural language, and
another for the encoding format.

Note that encoding format can be a broad format, as it is really for
computer consumption.  Valid forms could be ASCII (with underlining) -- the
default, various extended-Ascii formats, Katanji etc. but also binary,
image, rich text etc.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473