Hello Wilfred,

Under  "Miscellaneous", "Message base", there is a
switch "Remove lf/soft cr".

I would like to break this into two seperate switches, one for LF and one for SR.

Because:

Treating the SR (hex 8D) as a special character in Fidonet messages is a
legacy from the Wordstar age. It may have been a good idea when Fidonet was
conceived, but these days it is treated as a printable character in most
character sets. Notably in the character set most used in Fidonet
messaging: CP866. 0x8D can also be part of a well formed UTF-8 sequence. So
removing the soft return is not a good idea in most cases today.

The LF OTOH should not occur in the body of Fidonet messages. They do
appear however when an external text editor such as edit or notepad is used
in combination with some Fidonet editors like Golded.

The specs say, that when encountered, LFs should be ignored, so it is not
really harmful, but it annoys certain hard line nitpickers among us, so an
option to remove LFs is useful in order to apease them.

I could live with just changing it into "remove LFs" and not touch the SR.


Cheers, Michiel

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