Yup!
On Sep 9, 15:45, "Erik E. Fair" (Internet Architect) wrote:
Subject: Re: 8-bit transmission in NNTP
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}The whole idea behind MIME was to get the user interface
}software changed to properly support character sets other than ASCII
}*independent* of transport and it does no damn good if we don't label
}the silly things which is where the "just send 8 bits" idiocy leaves
}us. This goes for NetNews too.
We've actually contemplated this a "bit" ago for internal use. Formalization
would be great.
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Cheers!
[ psr ]