ml> apparently the character translation table is broken with regard to
 ml> apostrophies...

   Well, there is no translation taking place at all here (only at the readers'
side where applicable). But you are right, it was a handful of apostrophises
that caused all this brouhaha.

   Ah well, CP 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page in many
countries, including various English-speaking locales (e.g. in the United
Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada).

   CP 850 differs from CP 437 (previously used in the echo postings) in that
many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters, and various symbols were
replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving
support for Western European languages (all characters from ISO 8859-1 are
included).

   So I think I'll stick to CP 850 when posting the Fidonews in the echoes. Any
objections, save from the UTF-8 fanatics?



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