From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1998 10:31:21 -0700
From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] mothra char set
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On Sep 8,  6:00pm, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Subject: [9fans] mothra char set
> >>latin1 to utf on input.  Obviously if you prefer to
> >>read JIS, you can change latin2utf appropriately.
>
> the content-type should specify charset= to distinguish the
> cases.
Should, but often doesn't.
>  the catch (as always with this multiple-charset clumsiness)
> is that you'd probably need to replicate all the translations of tcs.
> ugh.

Maybe you could pipe text through tcs -- or build a tcs library,
so that this ugh never occurs again.

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Tom Duff.  Hear, ye children, and attend to my lips.