Hi, Mark Lewis!
I read your message from 14.07.2017 10:13

  ak>> IMHO, such a cross mapping cannot solve UTF8 translation on
  ak>> one byte systems fully. And therefore there is no sense to
  ak>> do it at all. What are you supposing to see after cross
  ak>> mapping Russian text into CP437?
  ml> you're going the wrong way around... i'm talking specifically
  ml> about mapping CP437 characters into UTF-8 for display purposes
  ml> on a UTF-8 system... more specifically the box and frame
  ml> drawing characters above 127 in the CP437 character table... GoldEd(+)
  ml> uses them to draw its own frames and borders so why can't it also do
  ml> the same with them when they are in message text??

We talked not about box drawing, but what the owners of GoldEd/cp437 
will see when somebody posts messages with Russian lines in UTF8.

AFAIR I said that not everyone is able to see them properly.

Bye, Mark!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2017
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