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In article <4c5af098$0$32458$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
>> Why?
>> It's an english NG and AFAIK English can be encoded completely
>> in 7 bit ASCII.
>
>
>While the rest of the world may say 20°, in the USA, despite it being
>english, they will say 68°.  Still needs a charactere whose value is
>higher than 127.
>
>Same for the euro currency symbol. You still need to include it in your
>text even if you speak english.

And JF's message, despite the 8bit degree is not quoted-pukeable!

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Read's like a charm here on the OS you all so loathe and condemn.

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