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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-08-25 21:14:00
subject: What is the charset kludg

On 24/08/2020 10:23 a.m., Michiel van der Vlist : Gunter Sandner wrote:


>  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 ������
>
> Looks good.
>
>
> Cheers, Michiel

Gunter's message arrived with CHRS: CP437 2, and the umlauts rendered perfectly
here.  But you quoted-reply with CHRS: CP1252 2, and that made the umlauts
unreadable.  :(   Wouldn't it be best to reply with the same CHRS setting -
especially if quoting the original 8-bit characters?

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