Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.071825.28660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> <4ec122f7.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 07:18:25 GMT

In article <4ec122f7.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
>... Are modern B-news and C-news 8-bit safe?

We believe that C News is fully 8-bit clean, subject to two caveats:

1. Some processing of certain things is done by shell files, using various
	ordinary Unix utilities, and if they are not 8-bit clean, C News
	can't be.

2. Certain things in article headers are limited to 7 bits by the defining
	documents (RFC822 and RFC1036) even if the rest of the message uses
	a full 8 bits, and it is possible that C News depends on this in
	small ways.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry