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echo: fidotest
to: GUNTER SANDNER
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2020-08-24 16:21:00
subject: What is the charset kludg

Hello Gunter,

On Monday August 24 2020 15:58, you wrote to Alle:

 GS> @MSGID: 2:310/31.2@fidonet e7bcf7b0
 GS> @PID: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32)
 GS> @CHRS: CP437 2
 GS> @TZUTC: 0200
 GS> Hello together!

 GS> Is the charset kludge of this message as intedend like this:
 GS> CHRS: CP437 2
 GS> ???

Check.

But why CP437?  CP850, Latin-1 or UTF-8 are mostly used in Western Europe.

 GS> Some umlauts äöüÄÖÜ

Looks good.


Cheers, Michiel

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