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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Message-ID: <NEnQQBhy@visix.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 17:15:21 GMT
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I don't see a whole lot of use for a "Language:" header, but for
alternate alphabets, we could always say something like:

	Content-Type: ISO-2022

And then allow alphabet announcers and shifts in the article body.
The biggest problem would be upgrading 'rn' so that it could take
advantage of alternate character sets in dumb terminals, and map
things appropriately when possible.

Or we could just throw out current formats altogether and use the
X.400 message content encoding...

Usenet II, anyone?

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Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
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