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to: Meikel Brandmeyer
from: Andre Grueneberg
date: 2003-03-28 18:57:34
subject: CharsetAlias

Hi Meikel

Meikel Brandmeyer schrieb:

 MB> I submitted some changes, which add CharsetAlias to the repertoire
 MB> of options. It's really annoying, that some mailers still send
 MB> messages with a "CHRS: IBMPC 2" Kludge, which are actually
 MB> "CP" encoded. This options adds the
possibility to set
 MB> an alias. So eg. german users can add
 MB> CharsetAlias IBMPC CP850
 MB> to their timed.cfg. This should solve the most problems in german
 MB> echos. BTW, this functionality does not interfere with the
 MB> "CODEPAGE"-kludge processing added previously.

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

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