Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!apollo!rees
From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: 8-bit fonts
Message-ID: <3abfeabc.1de6@apollo.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 88 13:17:00 GMT
References: <3aa84fac.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <143@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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  It is my understanding that the RFC's dealing with the exchange of Usenet
  messages specify that the text must be 7-bit ascii, so we make sure
  that none of this leaves the country - Is this true?

Yes, but the standard simply codifies standard practice.  Changes have
historically been made in the protocol first, and the document last.
So I think the right thing is to go ahead and post articles to the
net with the new character set, and let the software catch up.  It
doesn't do any harm to any news installation that I know of, although
the high bit will normally get stripped on the first hop, rendering the
article useless.

Personal to Marius:  Please send me your ctype macros and rn patches.
I sent you mail but have doubts about routing to your '.is' domain.