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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: GUNTER SANDNER
date: 2020-08-25 23:12:00
subject: charset kludge

Hallo Michiel!

 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 :-)

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

But not simultaneously with CP437 !!!


Ciao
Gunter

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