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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Message-ID: <6cs]g2.[+@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 31 Dec 90 18:09:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> <4ec122f7.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> <1990Dec28.071825.28660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In news.software.b, article <1990Dec28.071825.28660@zoo.toronto.edu>,
  henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
< 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.
< 
That applies mainly to inews (which also strips control characters -- one
might argue that this is the news reader's job), so if the kernel is 8-bit
clean, the stuff might at least pass through OK.

NB: What, if anything, is wrong with using RFC 1049 for character sets and
another header (maybe call it "Content-Language"), structured similarly, for
language?
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