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from: LARRY DURHAM
date: 1998-02-13 00:48:00
subject: Re: ASCII vs ANSI

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Newsgroups: AIRGUN.LIST
Do we really all need to read about this stuff? It seems in nop way
airgun, or gun-rights related, so I personally could care less about it!
ld
Palincss wrote:
> 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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