GE>> I was under the impression that Big-5 used to be used in ftn
 GE>> messages.

 HR>> No. Not translateable.

 GE> What do you mean by 'translateable'?

Translating from one charset to another.

 GE> What is not 'translateable'?

Other charsets below listed.

 GE> What is it not 'translateable' from and what is it not
 GE> 'translateable' into?

 HR>> There are only 

 HR>>  "IBMPC",   
 HR>>  "ASCII"
 HR>>  "LATIN-1"
 HR>>  "MAC"

 HR>> defined in FTSC. All of them are single byte.

 GE> As far as I know there are currently no FTS documents specifying
 GE> character set usage in ftn messages.

Read fsc-0054.004 - The CHARSET proposal.


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