Re: Usenet characters
| Newsgroups | news.groups,alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet |
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It is ASCII ! usenet originally is TEXT ASCII CHR On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:58:09 GMT, vallor <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 14:47:24 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]> >wrote in <[email protected]>: > >> On text Usenet, we post in plain text, and when writing in English, we use >> ASCII. Why? ASCII is universal. ASCII is never mistranslated by anybody's >> newsreader. > >("TINW". ;) (But this post is only 7-bit.) > >I'm not sure, but there might be an RFC expanding on that >definition to include usage of UTF-8...and indeed, >one GNKSAI newsreader (pan) includes the >ability to insert an emoji in its editor. > >Wrote about this back in March in alt.fan.usenet: > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >One can also use emojis on an xfce4-terminal. I think most modern terminals >will render them. The Linux tool "gnome characters" is helpful for >copying emojis to the clipboard, if your newsreader is older. - telnet://gallaxial.com BBS irc://gallaxial.com IRC With Service http://gallaxial.com:33333 Old Fashon torrent Tracker ftp://gallaxial.com FTP server fidonet files +++ -