Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!telly!intacc!mann From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language Message-ID: <1990Dec28.075053.2780@intacc.uucp> Reply-To: mann@intacc.UUCP (Jeff Mann) Organization: Inter/Access References: <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 07:50:53 GMT In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: >Putting the character set in the header limits us to only one language per >article. I'd much prefer to see some escape mechanism in the body. Yes, of course!! Brad's original example was the Canadian newsgroup where articles often include text from one article in English, with a reply in French. Having a Lanuage header would restrict each article to one specific language, and this would break down in the face of bilingual postings. However, escape codes in the body seem to be kind of a problem to me (writing from my adm3a terminal :-) - now what? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Jeff Mann Inter/Access Artists' Computer Centre, Toronto [416] 535-8601 | | ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann intacc!mann@nexus.yorku.ca mann@intacc.uucp | | The Matrix Artists' Computer Network BBS: [416] 535-7598 2400 8N1 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-