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Is Usenet ASCII only?

From Bob Roberts@21:2/118 to All on Thursday, January 28, 2021 09:11:23

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 Friday, January 29, 2021 08:20:57

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 Friday, January 29, 2021 10:22:23

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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