Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!herkules.sssab.se!matoh From: matoh@sssab.se (Mats Ohrman) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 09:17:49 GMT References: <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: matoh@sssab.se Organization: 3S AB Lines: 18 spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes: > As for multiple languages, list all the languages and dialects >in the "Language:" header and use a font or encoding scheme that gives >you the character sets you need. Just because I post a message >encoded in ASCII doesn't mean you can't follow up in JIS, so long as >your posting server converts my text and sets the correct "Encoding:" >header. The problem is that there may not be any standard encoding for a specific language. For exemple, an article written in Swedish may have any of at least three different encodings, all being different "standards". The language don't give you enough information to choose encodings, and if it is the encoding you're after anyway, why don't specify it in the header. -- _ Mats Ohrman Scandinavian System Support AB E-mail: matoh@sssab.se Box 535 _ Telephone: +46 13 11 16 60 581 06 Linkoping, Sweden Telefax: +46 13 11 51 93