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From: rad@railnet.UUCP (Rick DeMattia)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Message-ID: <DsZ3u2w163w@railnet.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 91 05:58:36 GMT
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root@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Postmaster) writes:

> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> 
> > In article <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad T
> > 
> >    I propose a new USENET header item, namely "Language:"

> 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.
> 

Out of curiosity, how do you implement the aforementioned characters?  
IBM-PC character-set?  Is your method of implementation standard across 
platforms?

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