Sendmail and international character sets (was Re: 8859 vs. 646)

[Keld J|rn Simonsen]

From: keld at diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)

>From: cns at mtunm.uucp
>is it going to include greek? or better: if i type something in greek
>on my unix terminal in athens, is it going to appear in greek on my 
>terminal in usa?

>thx
>constantine
>at&t bell labs  usa .... where our  ovens run on UNIX/tm

Yes, it supports greek already, that is ISO 8859-7 a.k.a.
ELOT 928 - 8 bit greek. So if you use terminals both places
that supports this you have no problem.
If you run on an IBM PC there is support
for displaying the greek chars in this charset.
If you use plain ASCII you can have it displayed in a identifiable and
somewhat mnemonic form, like a*b* for alfa beta.
If you reply on this, you can generate answers which will be presented
correctly on the receiver's terminal.

There are similar provisions implemented for cyrillic, arabic and hebrew.

Keld Simonsen
 
Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 95