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echo: fidotest
to: MAURO VEIGA
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2020-07-22 00:29:00
subject: Jamnntpd

Hello Mauro,

On Tuesday July 21 2020 16:58, you wrote to me:

 MV>>> ... * * * <- Tribbles  t t t <- dissected tribbles
 MV>                             ^ ^ ^
 >> When posting messages without a CHRS kludge, one can not expect
 >> non-ASCII characters to be correctly displayed on the screens of the
 >> receivers.

 MV> Is a simple hyphen. Alt+45 is a non-ASCII character?

What I received was not a hyphen:

0130   0D 20 20 20  20 20 4D 75  73 74 20 62  65 20 74 68  .     Must be th
0140   65 20 61 67  65 2E 20 20  3A 2D 29 0D  0D 0D 2E 2E  e age.  :-).....
0150   2E 20 2A 20  2A 20 2A 20  3C 2D 20 54  72 69 62 62  . * * * <- Tribb
0160   6C 65 73 20  20 F0 20 F0  20 F0 20 3C  2D 20 64 69  les  ­ ­ ­ <- di
                       ^^    ^^     ^^

I got three hex F0 or decimal 240. That's is not ASCII.


Cheers, Michiel

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