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echo: airgun
to: ALL
from: PALINCSS
date: 1998-02-12 17:06:00
subject: Re: ASCII vs ANSI

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Newsgroups: AIRGUN.LIST
Yes, and odds are your system is base64 encoding them and sending them
as MIME multipart messages, which can include binary file attachments,
and which are sent over the internet every day.
At 12:52 PM 2/12/98 -0500, George Hardy wrote:
>At 06:05 AM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Internet e-mail, via which the listserv portion of this is managed,
>>allows only 7 bit communication.  8 bit files (which are required
>>for the character set with "ASCII" values over 127 decimal (7F hex)
>>must be converted to 7 bit, usually, in the internet world via
>>uuencode.
>
>Cannot be true.  I use the 'high' code letters every day in e-mail
>All lists and e-mails I have contact with (except this one) has
>no problem with "high" ANSI characters, most accept "high" ASCII.
>GFH
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