Hi Meikel

Meikel Brandmeyer schrieb:

 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".
 MB> For me this won't help much. In german echos you will encounter
 MB> problems, because there you have a lot of messages with a "CHRS:
 MB> IBMPC 2" kludge, but CP850 encoding. 

Which echos are you talking about? And those using CP850 should use LATIN1
instead (it's nearly the same as CP850)...tell them correct their
systems...

 MB> It is much better to be able to change this dynamically. This might
 MB> not be "correct", but it is more userfriendly. 

I prefer correctness over userfriendliness...I know this saying about being
liberal in what you expect, but then it has to be a runtime setting not a
configuration verb which can be immitated by a modified readmaps.dat ... we
should rather think about including the maps source...

CU Andre               E-Mail: andre{at}grueneberg.de 
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