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to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2020-08-25 21:46:00
subject: What is the charset kludg

Hello August,

On Tuesday August 25 2020 21:17, you wrote to me:

 >> But why CP437?  CP850, Latin-1 or UTF-8 are mostly used in Western
 >> Europe.
 >>
 >>  GS> Some umlauts #ÿý#ÿý#ÿý#ÿý#ÿý#ÿý

And now it does not look so good any more...
 >>
 >> Looks good.
 >>
 >>
 >> Cheers, Michiel

 AA> Gunter's message arrived with CHRS: CP437 2, and the umlauts rendered
 AA> perfectly here.  But you quoted-reply with CHRS: CP1252 2, and that
 AA> made the umlauts unreadable.  :(

Not here. TTMBOK they were correctly translated to CP1252 by my Golded.

 AA> Wouldn't it be best to reply with the same CHRS setting - especially
 AA> if quoting the original 8-bit characters?

Why? Keep in mind that this is the test area. :-)


Cheers, Michiel

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