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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please confirm or deny my assumptions...
Date: 18 Sep 1995 00:15:14 +0200
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

>|Mikhail's fault with the 8-bit chars was only that he didn't attribute
>|them properly as KOI8-R characters.

>I did no realy want to use MIME just 
>because of the .SIG.

Not necessarily MIME.  But they showed up as strange rubbish under
ISO-8859-1.  I wouldn't even have got the idea that it's KOI8-R until
someone (indirectly) pointed me to it.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)