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echo: net_dev
to: Sergey Sarayev
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2000-02-08 00:39:02
subject: Multi-byte character sets

-=> Quoting Sergey Sarayev to Simon Avery <=-

 SS> Hello Simon!

 SS> 06 Feb 00 21:27, Simon Avery wrote to Goran Eriksson:
 
 GE>> What multi-byte character sets are currently used in ftn
 GE>> messages? With multi-byte character sets I mean character sets
 GE>> where one character is encoded into more than one byte.
 
 SA> Cyrillic, Chinese and Hebrew AFAIK - and I've no idea of the
 SA> implementation of those, or even if they're true multi-byte or simply
 SA> extended codepages.

 SS> cyrillic - simply extended codepage.

Ditto for Hebrew, and Arabic. And I've seen (but don't have docs for)
similar things for Thai, Vietnamese, and several other Asian languages.

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