From: Peter.Macinnis@p0.f508.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Macinnis)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: EXPERIMENT.....
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:19:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 3:711/508.0 - The Bay, Neutral Bay NSW

This message was from ROBERT BRAULT to ALL EDUCATORS,
and was forwarded to you by PETER MACINNIS.
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Just in case you missed this one!  No need to acknowledge, but it might
be fun to try.  BTW, I've been naughty and used high stuff in the past:
has it flashed back at you?
                           peter

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All readers: please advise your sysop that the following message was posted
in the K12_SYSOP message area so that we may carry this experiment in December
with all the Sysop help we can get. Thank You.
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* Original Area: K12.SYSOP
* Original To  : Sysops (1:167/130)

                THE INFAMOUS ASCII EXPERIMENT

        I have asked for one channel for a week experiment of the so-called
"high bit ASCII", wich in fact refers to ASCII characters above number 127. If
someone is not familiar with ASCII characters, let's just say that each
character on our keyboard (letters, numbers and other characters) have all a
distinct number for your computer. All brands of computers have established a
standard for the first 127th characters whereas any computer will "see" a "i"
wether someone reads with a MAC, an IBM, an Atari, etc...

        Such is not the case for other characters wich number is above 127 in
the ASCII table: these characters are the special letters used in languages
other than english, like certain accents on letters in french, spanish, etc...
Since there is no "standard" for these characters someone with an IBM
compatible might see the french letter "e" with a small / over it as that
particular letter, but a MAC person could see a graphical symbol and an Atari
person could see a greek letter.

        This experiment will be done in only one channel wich will be CHANNEL
4 and will last for 1 WEEK: from December 4th to December 13th 1992 wich gives
us 1 full week and 2 weekends. This experiment will carry, on the above
mentioned channel, messages written in french, spanish and german with all the
usual signs these languages carry with them.

        This is done to "test" our K12 "network" on how the different boards
(both FidoNet, InterNet and OtherNet) deal with these special characters and
to check if it's possible to allow "high bit characters" in message sections
of K12Net in the future; i'm thinking specially here about the linguistic
message sections and maybe (if everything goes right) in other areas of K12.

        Now to check this, your particular bbs software needs to be modified
as to allow "high bit characters" to "pass tru" your system.

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*                       ATTENTION SYSOPS                                  *
*                                                                         *
*       Could you please modify you bbs software to allow "high bit       *
*       characters on CHANNEL 4 from December 4th to December 13th        *
*                                                                         *
*       THANK YOU                                                         *
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        I can tell Maximus Sysops how to do this and if other sysops using
other software know how to do it on their own software, please feel free to
mention to others how it is done.

        FOR MAXIMUS SYSOPS: In your MsgArea.Ctl file (it might be also
Areas.Ctl file) go to the Channel 4 section and add the following line
High Bit Allowed with your popular editor. Save these changes and don't
forget to run SILT on your modified MsgArea.Ctl file.

                Thank you,

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Robert





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