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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.society.development
Subject: Re: Who is on the net?
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Date: 18 Jun 91 11:18:30 GMT
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Bob Pendleton writes:
 > In article <1632@ucl-cs.uucp>, G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
 > 
 > > I also wonder whether "email" is the medium of choice for all
 > > communitities in all parts of the world. With the X.400 protocol,
 > > voice-mail and pictures are possible.
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > I know what I'm about to say sounds a bit humorous in light of the
 > level of computer technology being discussed here, but...
 > 
 > An X based mailer could send the font name as part of the text, and
 > encode the text using the appropriate glyph indices. That way, any
 > alphabet can be used to send and receive email.Another alternative
 > would be to just send compressed bit maps.
 > 
 > A slightly higher level of technology gets you a lot of flexibility.
 > 
 > -- 
 >               Bob Pendleton, speaking only for myself.
 >    bpendlet@dsd.es.com or decwrl!esunix!bpendlet or hellgate!esunix!bpendlet
 > 
 >                          Tools, not rules

My apologies; there are plans for extended ACSII (16 bit?) which would
allow such characters to be transmitted. I had forgotenn about the idea.

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