From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe29a1488f32d75e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) Subject: Latin1 Date: 1997/04/25 Message-ID: <5jprtg$3180@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237234783 References: <01bc45df$10fa6480$d27d8ea1@AaBbCcDd> <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> <3354C73E.54B@lmtas.lmco.com> <5jc0ko$46g@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <5jfles$3i9@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote: : If you are posting to international newsgroups, it is a good idea to : stick to the lower half of the Latin-1 set (i.e. what used to be called : ASCII in the old days :-) yes. Latin1 is a promising standard but not yet well supported (dos, unix, gnat etc.). I am just grabbing for my flame-suit ... :-) An interesting alternative for today's status quo which I am going to favour is html. It can be handled by our age-old standardized 7-bit-ascii and has a lot of additional advantages such as easy conversion to postscript documents by good web browsers. -- Peter Hermann Tel:+49-711-685-3611 Fax:3758 ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)