Hello Nicholas,

On Sunday July 12 2020 07:54, you wrote to me:

 BW>>> BjÔrn
 MV>>    ^
 MV>> Without a CHRS kludge to indicate what encoding is used, one can
 MV>> not expect non-ASCII characters to be displayed correctly...

 NB> While one can not expect it, you can definitely assume it.

You can assume, but you know what they say about ASSumptions...

 NB> Almost 100% of the time when a CHRS kludge is not used the original
 NB> sender is using a BBS software that doesn't support the CHRS kludge.
 NB> Mystic may be one that can be fixed, but there are a lot of other
 NB> programs being used today that aren't supported by a developer any
 NB> more and you won't be able to convince the user of said software to
 NB> change.

If one uses antiquated abandonware that does not support the CHRS kludge, than
the recommended course of action is simple: do not use it in a a way that was
not part of the game when it was designed. When it was designed Fidonet was
ASCII only. IOW, use ASCII only in your messages.

 NB> xlatimport cp437

 NB> Should fix this for you.

Only for this message and others messages that use CP437 as the encoding. The
world of Fidonet is bigger than CP437. Much bigger.

 NB> This way you can spend more time with grandkids, or taking walks, or
 NB> fishing, or whatever you enjoy doing outside of Fidonet, rather than
 NB> contstantly nit-picking miniscule things in a dying hobby.

Nothing is forever and hobbys come and go. Yes, Fidonet is on the trailing edge
of the Bell curve. Denial is not a river in Egypt. That does not stop me from
doing what I think is best to help to keep it going for as long as I can.

You call it nitpicking, I call it reporting on abberations that I observe.
Isn't feed back an essential part of testing?

 NB> And since I imported it as cp437, I should have now converted it to
 NB> UTF-8, just for you. ;)

What you achieved is converting the Capital O with circumflex to UFT-8. I do
not know if that was the plan...

 BW>>> BjÔrn
         ^

Cheers, Michiel

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