Xref: utzoo news.software.b:6519 alt.bbs:3894 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: <37N6u2w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 2 Jan 91 17:41:01 GMT References: Organization: Questor: FREE Worldwide News & Mail Access => +1 604 681.0670 Lines: 64 rad@railnet.UUCP (Rick DeMattia) writes: > Out of curiosity, how do you implement the aforementioned characters? > IBM-PC character-set? Is your method of implementation standard across > platforms? From the content of the following message, there appears to be a useful implementation around the corner, and there is a good possibility that it will indeed be standard across all platforms. Maybe we should all get rid of our PC's, Mac's, Amigas, et alia, and all get NeXT's?? :-) > From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) > Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.bbs > Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language > Message-ID: > Date: 1 Jan 91 19:56:27 GMT > References: > Sender: news@slyrf.dkuug.dk > Followup-To: news.software.b > There is an ISO standard ISO 639:1988 which contains all the languages > in the world with their English, French and native names - and > a standard two-letter abbrevation. I will suggest that the > abbrevation should be used in this proposed header. > An exerpt of the ISO 639 standard is available by anon ftp in > dkuug.dk:i18n/ISO_639 - it has all abbrevations and the English > name listed, but no French nor native names. > Concerning the character set, there was a discussion on the > news early last year (1990!) - where Kim Storm (the author of nn) > announced that support for extended character sets was planned for nn. > I think he is still planning this, but the implementation is becoming > nearer. > Kim Storm planned on using some software I have developed. > This SW can handle (in the current release) some 60 different character > sets and represent in each character set all of the others via some > quite mnemonic encoding. Thus you can have presented what your > equipment is capable of, and the rest can be deciphered too, > without loss of information. You can use an encoded ASCII as the > transport character set, this should pass any news agent in the world. > I am employing this SW at dkuug.dk - the Danish Internet mail > backbone and uucp gateway, via a sendmail 5.64 + IDA implementation. > I there have implemented the headers X-Charset: and X-Char-Esc: > to specify the encoding. I am also working together with Dan Oscarsson > on doing a truly ISO 10646 based sendmail. > The Sendmail and character set SW is available from dkuug.dk:pub > Keld Simonsen Many thanks for Keld for his timely response!! --- 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 |