From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  8 Aug 1995 13:04:49 -0400
From: goon quanstro@dev.infomkt.ibm.com
Subject: utf --- as long as you're being picky
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>> Fans of Plan 9 _want_ to be able
>> to send 8 bit (utf) characters, and most smtp agents will let them (the "cannot"
>> in the message is patently false).

>Actually, that's 8/16 bit UTF characters depending on the encoding.
>This stuff will cause even more problems for netnews when, hopefully, this
>list will be gatewayed into comp.os.plan9.

as long as you're going to get technical, plan 9 uses only one encoding
of unicode which is fss-utf-8 (called fss-utf-2 in some plan 9 papers)
it uses either 1, 2 or 3 bytes per character.