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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: TO MiquelC USING H
Message-ID: <CxyAyq.5qJ@inter.NL.net>
Keywords: I hate 7 bit ASCII
Organization: NLnet
References: <37vl20$bru@grivel.une.edu.au> <CxuupK.FLq@inter.NL.net> <384fui$up@kelly.teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 02:59:13 GMT
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In article <384fui$up@kelly.teleport.com>,
George Dick <napoleon@teleport.com> wrote:
>
>I've posted this point before, and it more or less completely ignored 
>(yes I'm whining...)... but, in any case...
>
>The chinese newsgroups use encoding (BIG5) etc to be able to display 
>Kanji. Why don't we come up with a way to use IPA- perhaps the SIL IPA 
>fonts- on this news group? Perhaps a two-byte encoding method would be 
>enough to allow one to use ASCII and IPA in the same document...? I don't 
>know, but I know that we should be able to do it, on the basis of the 
>BIG5 groups' example...

How do they do it?  I know from the Spanish newsgroup that it's
virtually impossible to even get something as simple as ANSI Latin-1
past some braindead high-bit-stripping network nodes.  
The SIL IPA fonts are available in TrueType format (Macintosh and
MS-Windows).  Maybe there's a version for X too, I don't know.
Trouble is, I'm running a terminal emulator (under Windows NT),
by which I'm logged in on a Sun4, doing VT100 emulation over the
phone.  I'm using (t)rn as my newsreader.  There's no way I could
see SIL-IPA fonts with this setup (not without some additional
software.  Or a SLIP connection)...

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