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Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 01:17:36 EST
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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Telnet 8th bit: a good use for that bit...
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>I think that it would be good to specify that 8-bit values passed
>on Telnet connections are in ISO Latin I (essentially, extend NETASCII
>to 8 bits using the ISO character set that contains all the graphics
>for all the Latin languages).

That would leave all the non-Latin languages, like Japanese, Chinese,
Korean, etc., out in the cold.  It would be a mistake to require that
8-bit values (i.e, GR characters, with the 8th bit set) passed over
TELNET connections be in one particular character set.  If need be,
there could be TELNET options to indicate which character set is
being sent over the wire.