From hungary-online-owner Tue Mar 28 18:31:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-Hungary-Online Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA17923 for hungary-online-out31415; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:31:08 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA17912; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:30:56 -0800 Received: from fekete@bcuxs2.bc.edu () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hungary-online@hungary.yak.net (17910) Received: from bcuxs2.bc.edu (bcuxs2.bc.edu [136.167.15.3]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA17907 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:30:50 -0800 Received: by bcuxs2.bc.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02683; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:33:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:33:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Cc: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Subject: (HOL) Latin-1 accented letters In-Reply-To: <199503290121.UAA07081@hix.mit.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net You guys should really be reading soc.culture.magyar (or, hopefully soon, .hungarian ;-)) wher we're just having a thread on this. The short of it: the character set is ISO standard, and much of the world outside the USA seems to use it. Usenet per se does not support it (yet), but the European and latin-American portions of the net typically do. Most modern mailers are 8-bit clean as well (except my Ultrix sendmail, 'course ;-(). So mail-wise it's mostly OK to transmit even here, with sending news you're taking chances (and I wish people wouldn't just yet, for it's gonna take awhile before such an Un-American thing gets widely supported in the good ole' USA ;-(). Zoli fekete@bc.edu, finger magyar@world.std.com for the charter of s.c.h # Wallace Sayre said, "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter # form of politics, because the stakes are so low." He didn't know # Usenet: welcome to the next level. (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############