Xref: utzoo news.software.b:6494 alt.bbs:3852 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!questor!root From: root@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Postmaster) Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.bbs Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 90 01:37:08 GMT References: Organization: Questor: FREE Worldwide News & Mail Access => +1 604 681.0670 Lines: 24 emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > In article <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Tem > > I propose a new USENET header item, namely "Language:" > > The default, for historical reasons, would be "Language: English" but > other fields would be fine. And sorry to be so anglo-centric, but > I suspect that the language names should be the English names for the > languages, since it is consistent with the use of English header names. I agree with the proposal. Waffle BBS Software (which we use at this site) already supports an 8-bit mode so that Cyrillic characters may be used, as well as diacritical marks on latin characters, such as e-acute, o-umlaut, and most others. --- Steve Pershing, System Administrator | The QUESTOR PROJECT - Free Usenet News/Internet Mail; Sci, Med, AIDS, more | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Usenet: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca | POST: 1027 Davie Street, Box 486 | | Phones: Voice/FAX: +1 604 682-6659 | Vancouver, British Columbia | | Data/BBS: +1 604 681-0670 | Canada V6E 4L2 |