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to: GUNTER SANDNER
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2020-08-25 21:52:00
subject: charset kludge

Hello Gunter,

On Tuesday August 25 2020 21:06, you wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:

 GS>>> Kyrillic ???
 GS>>> Sorry, no way...

 GS>>> The software architecture just doesn't provide that.

 SM>> Why not?

 GS> Because it was programmed 30 years ago in the MS-DOS era :-)

30 years ago MS-DOS could already deal with CP866.

Cheers, Michiel

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