Hi Michiel,

On 2014-04-28 15:11:02, you wrote to me:

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

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

 MvdV> Because:

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

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

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

This sounds reasonable. I'll look into it...

Bye, Wilfred.

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