[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<67ee06e9-111a-4571-8a77-7d656fdf9e84 at u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>,
MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes: 

> Second, 8-bit ASCII will mostly do the right thing, when it is not
> actually breaking legacy code. But 8-bit ASCII doesn't magically cure
> the problem of compatibility with a legacy newsreader that does not
> know what to do with an 8-bit ASCII code. It is still not going to
> result in the right character being displayed on the terminal, unless
> you accidentally have an 8-bit clean newsreader and accidentally use
> the same 8-bit code page on your terminal as was used on the origin
> terminal to compose the message. Some people see the degree sign;
> others see the question mark. YMMV.

Right.  If the software understands only 7-bit, then it will probably
display the 8-bit stuff wrongly.  However, with QP, also stuff which was
originally written as 7-bit is displayed wrongly on a 7-bit receiving
end.