Hello mark,

On Thursday February 14 2008 16:23, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 WvV>> Maybe, you should upgrade to Windows XP, they look fine here! ;)

 ml> i don't know what michiel's reader is

See tearline...

It is running under WIN98SE. The problem with win98 is that its DOS box is
set to CP850 and you can only change that in full screen mode.

The characters concerned are 0xB8, 0xBE, 0xD4 and 0xD5. In most codepages
they are graphic line drawing characters, but in CP850, CP852 and CP857,
they are not.

 ml> but on my TimEd setup, they looked quite ok... however, when reading
 ml> from my nntp server via XNews, i saw what he was talking about...

You may have seen something differemt than what I saw. I see a box that is
ok, expect for the corners. The corners show (from top left, clockwise) a
not sign, a copyright sign, a Yen sign end an E with grave.

 ml> in this instance, the boxed frame was converted to 7bit ascii...

Hmmm...

 ml> i'd have to go back thru the source code i have for the nntp server
 ml> i'm running, but i believe that this conversion is done by a routine
 ml> in that nntp server when it transmits the message to the remote
 ml> client... it should take a minor tweak of this routine to facilitate
 ml> this conversion...

Except that CP850 does not have the correct characters. It is only in Fmail
and allfix that this is a problem as only they use a double line for the
vertical lines and a single line for the vertical lines.


Cheers, Michiel

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