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Old May 13th 17, 05:11 PM posted to alt.photography,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default What say ye about this? XP v. 10

In message , Andy Burns
writes:
Paul wrote:

AHA! So there was something I missed there. The char-set is UTF-8.


Yes, usenet seems split into people who hold-on to the view that it
should be kept 7 bit pure ASCII, and those who have moved on :-)


It's not a matter of opinion; there are parts of usenet that _are_ just
7 bit. If you want non-ASCII characters to pass through those bits,
you've got to encode them somehow - UUcode, MIME, and HTML all have
their followers and detractors. Adding headers that _say_ it's something
beyond 7-bit won't help the messages get through the more geriatric
parts of usenet unscathed.
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I long for the commercialised Christmas of the 1970s. It's got so religious
now, it's lost its true meaning. - Mike [{at}ostic.demon.co.uk], 2003-12-24
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