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to: Andre Grueneberg
from: Gerrit Kuehn
date: 2003-03-31 09:11:30
subject: CharsetAlias

Hello Andre!

Mar 28 18:57 03, Andre Grueneberg wrote to Meikel Brandmeyer:

 MB>> CharsetAlias IBMPC CP850

 AG> We don't neccessarily need this one. We can handle this by creating 
 AG> "correct" (writ|read)maps.dat ... to what I know
"CHRS: IBMPC 2" is 
 AG> the standard for CP437 and only MsgEd refers to it as "CHRS: CP437 
 AG> 2".

Unfortunately you never know if a mail declaring IBMPC is using cp437 or
cp850. Mostly it's cp850 nowadays, because most people are running Windows,
but on my old DOS systems it's cp437.


Regards,
Gerrit

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