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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:23:25 +0000
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> 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.

I suppose Bj�rn could gave said 'lowercase Greek pi' but I think it
would have destroyed his point! (BTW, this is Carbon Emacs on
Powerbook G4).