Re: PLAIN TEXT!!! was Re: Babel Text in Durin
| From: | Chris Palmer <cecibean@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 3:04 |
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On 19 Jan, Danny Wier wrote:
> Does that mean ASCII as in 7-bit, or is Latin-1 okay? (I know in 1997
> it wasn't, but that was quite a long time ago.)
ASCII (7b) is the only thing you can reasonably count on to work
anywhere (anyone read their mail on an EBCDIC mainframe terminal?
...lucky dogs), although Latin-1 I consider not unreasonable.
Unfortunately Mac OS X' Terminal.app is acting flaky on me, so I reserve
the to act curmudgeonly at any time. You have been forewarned! ;)
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Chris www.nodewarrior.org/chris cecibean@bitstream.net