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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
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Date: 23 Dec 90 19:14:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 22 Dec 90 08:17:18 GMT

In article <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Date: 22 Dec 90 08:17:18 GMT
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<I propose a new USENET header item, namely "Language:"
>The default, for historical reasons, would be "Language: English" but
<other fields would be fine.

	Something is definitely needed.  I already have German, French, and
Japanese hierarchies on my system, and I am sure there are more
coming.  (Anyone want to write "Japanese for News Administrators",  I
could use it).  I think we need something more than just "Language:",
maybe "Encoding:".  For example:

Encoding: ASCII
Encoding: JIS
Encoding: ISO-(mumble)

	I would think that ASCII would be the default.  And of course
as we move to multi media news "Encoding:" would also be useful:

Encoding: GIF89
Encoding: FACESAVER
Encoding: RFC-(mumble)

	With "Language:" I think you might want a region, as in
"American English" or "Australian English" or even "California
English".  That way your news "reader" could have the right accent ;-)

->Spike

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