Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Danish spelling

[areinert (areinert]

On Fri, 3 Feb 1995, Stuart Staniford-Chen wrote:

> 
> 
> The cryptically named areinert writes:

Arne Reinert (didn't mean to be cryptic)

> > But they don't generally pass through internet high-bit strips (I presume),
> 
> The internet standard for email is RFC 822.  It specifies that mail consists 
> of ASCII characters (ie 7 bit characters).  Higher characters are not ASCII 
> (though there are various 8 bit extensions to ASCII they are not very 
> standardized) and are included in email at your own 
  risk.

I suppose in furrin countries they use their own character sets mapped to 
the ASCII values.  What happens to them when they get over here?
 
> Stuart.
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