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From: joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang)
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Subject: Re: Who is on the net?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.174845.16839@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 17:48:45 GMT
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In article <1632@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>Anyway, it has be English or Spanish if it is going to be
>spoken/written. The Chinese dialects and Japanese are not the easiest
>for email transmission, as yet. I do not know about Cyrillic.

Actually, it's relatively simple to transmit Chinese E-Mail.  All you
need is a PC with something like CC-DOS to generate the characters, and
some sort of utility like uuencode to make sure that the high order bits
don't get lost.  I'm subscribed to two mailing lists in Chinese.

As for Kanji Japanese, I'm sure similar utilities exist.  The "fj"
hierarchy of news groups transmit Kanji Japanese.
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