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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
Date: 29 Jan 2007 14:19:19 -0600
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In article <_wrvh.30646$E02.12547@newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
>> I get the following characters < I " > [ 8 0 ] in the editor, with a funny
>> different character in place of the first 4 in the mail program.
> 
> Your client doesn't seem to handle MIME at all, so in effect it assumes that
> the whole world is using the same character encoding as you. If you care
> about having all characters displayed right, then I'm afraid you'll need a
> better Usenet client.

And what client on my VMS system would display those characters on my
VT102 (emulator) ?

It seems to me that people in newsgroups should stick to ASCII.