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  • Is Usenet ASCII only?

    From Bob Roberts@21:2/118 to All on Thu Jan 28 09:11:23 2021
    I'm farting around with Usenet. What a trainwreck it has become. But I digress...

    Does Usenet only support ASCII? No extended ASCII? I just want to be sure my settings are correct.

    Bob Roberts
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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Bob Roberts on Fri Jan 29 08:20:57 2021
    Bob wrote (2021-01-28):

    I'm farting around with Usenet. What a trainwreck it has become. But I digress...

    Does Usenet only support ASCII? No extended ASCII? I just want to be sure my settings are correct.

    Usenet uses the same message format as email. It depends on the news client if it can display extended ASCII. Nowadays I would use UTF-8.

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  • From Bob Roberts@21:2/118 to Oli on Fri Jan 29 10:22:23 2021
    Does Usenet only support ASCII? No extended ASCII? I just want to
    be sure my settings are correct.

    Usenet uses the same message format as email. It depends on the news client if it can display extended ASCII. Nowadays I would use UTF-8.

    Ok. I'm gonna strip 'em just to be safe.

    Bob Roberts
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    * Origin: Halls of Valhalla -:- hovalbbs.com:2333 (21:2/118)