Re: /what point software
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to mark lewis on Tue Jun 09 2020 21:26:28


 MvdV> Instead of an 'H' we see an 'i' with accent grave. The infamous hex
 MvdV> 8D in CP437. My mesage however was encoded in CP866. That is Cyrillic
 MvdV> and in CP866, hex 8D is the letter pronounced as 'i' in 'Putin" which
 MvdV> looks very much like the latin 'H'. So someone using a reader that
 MvdV> propely displays CP866, would not have noticed anything odd other than
 MvdV> the capitalisation.

that partucular character has problems several ways... in this case, though, it
is known as the soft_cr... it is used to tell other readers/editors where the
word wrap is/was on the original... some tosser have an option to strip this...
some editors have an option to set it... some have no choice and it is set all
the time... i know that QWK/BW use it for their terminal wrap in edited
messages...

so if we strip it, then we break other languages... german is one, IIRC... if
we leave it, some of today's readers/editors will show it instead of word
wrapping on it and not displaying it at all...

this BBS editor has it as an option... i'll flip it after writing this reply
and we'll see how my future messages look...


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