Re: PLAIN TEXT!!! was Re: Babel Text in Durin
| From: | David Starner <starner@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 3:01 |
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:18:52PM -0600, Danny Wier wrote:
> Does that mean ASCII as in 7-bit, or is Latin-1 okay? (I know in 1997 it
> wasn't, but that was quite a long time ago.)
Latin-1 won't display on a EUC-JP/SJIS or KOI8-R system (i.e. Russians
and Japanese) any better than UTF-8 will, and I've noticed a number of
messages, from here and elsewhere, that were apparently Latin-1, but got
mangled or were mislabeled and were hence undisplayable.
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