Waffle MIME/ISO 8859-1 Patch V1.40                                  27-NOV-1993
Copyright (C) 1992-1993 by Kosta Kostis <kosta@blues.sub.de>
This is freeware!

What is MIME?
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MIME is described in RFC-1521.   ;-)

What is ISO 8859-x?
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Example ISO 8859-1:

ISO 8859-1 (1987), Latin 1, is intended to extend 7 Bit US ASCII by
providing additional characters for major languages of central Europe
(listed below). Like ASCII, the Latin 1 set also includes a miscellaneous
set of punctuation and mathematical signs.

The languages targeted for coverage by Latin 1, ISO 8859-1 are Danish,
Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish,
Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Many other languages can be written with this set of letters, including
Hawaiian, Indonesian/Malay and Swahili.

ISO 8859-1 is different from the encodings found on the IBM PC like Code
Page 850 and many more which means many characters can be "translated" from
one encoding to the other, some can not. Every ISO 8859-1 character can be
mapped to a character in Code Page 850 though. Should you need the full ISO
8859-1 set convertable on your PC, you will need to go with Code Page 850.

The following IBM Code Pages are converted:

        IBM Code Page 437 (US)         <->   ISO 8859-1
        IBM Code Page 850 (Latin1)     <->   ISO 8859-1
        IBM Code Page 852 (Latin2)     <->   ISO 8859-2
        IBM Code Page 857 (Latin5)     <->   ISO 8859-9
        IBM Code Page 866 (Cyrillic)   <->   ISO 8859-5
        IBM Code Page 869 (Greek)      <->   ISO 8859-7

The following Codepages will be treated as ISO 8859-x equivalents:

        IBM Codepage 813               <->   ISO 8859-7
        IBM Codepage 819               <->   ISO 8859-1
        IBM Codepage 912               <->   ISO 8859-2
        IBM Codepage 915               <->   ISO 8859-5
        IBM Codepage 920               <->   ISO 8859-9

All other code pages will not be converted.

What is the patch good for?
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The patch is good for people who need more than 7 Bit ASCII and want an
internationally accepted 8 Bit encoding. Please *do not* use line drawing
characters in your messages as they are *not* contained in ISO 8859-x.

The patch hooks rmail, rnews and compress/comp12/comp16 to convert incoming
and outgoing mails and articles. Uncompressed news won't be converted.

How do I install the patch?
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Simply extract the files in MIMEB140.ZIP in your \waffle\bin directory
and run the INSTALL batch. INSTALL will save your original rmail, rnews,
comp12, comp16 and compress and "install" the replacements. Two converters
come with the patch: ISOxIBM and IBMxISO. They convert between IBM Code
Page y and ISO 8859-x. See the *.MAN files for details.

Additionally correct MIME-headers are created for outgoing mails/news and
incoming mails encoded in quote-printable or base64 are decoded
automagically (Encode and Decode).

And the sources?
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The sources should be found in MIMES140.ZIP.

Where do I get the latest version?
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The latest version can be copied via anonymous ftp from:

        ftp.uni-erlangen.de:pub/doc/ISO/charsets/mimebxxx.zip
                                                 mimesxxx.zip

where xxx is the current version number (eg. 140 for 1.40)
