*** Answering a msg posted in area FIDOTEST (FIDOTEST).

Hello August!

*** Thursday July 02 2020 21:46, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 AA> @MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e60cd0fc
 AA> @PID: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32)
 AA> @CHRS: CP437 2
            ^^^^^^^
 AA> @TZUTC: -0400
 AA> Hello Sean!

 AA> ** On Thursday 02.07.20 - 19:36, Sean Dennis wrote to Mauro Veiga:

 MV>>> I believe to be sufficient that the reader is able to read CP437.
 MV>>> Every old mail reader does that.

 SD>> Indeed.  My BBS uses CP437 and Multimail uses CP437 so it all
 SD>> works for me.

 AA> But the original did not have any char kludge. But not all readers
 AA> fall  back to CP437 as a default.  Usually the default is to just use
 AA> the plain  text range?

 AA> BTW.. OpenXP has been adjusted to announce CP437 in lieu of the hottly
 AA>  debated IBM437.

 AA> This message should have the former if I include some graphic lines:

Indeed it does when viewed with GoldED+ but when viewed with OpenXP, the CHRS
kludge is IBM437:

=== Cut ===
 > EMP: /FIDO/FIDOTEST
 > ABS: August Abolins@2:221/1.58
 > BET: cp437
 > ROT: 2:310/31!221/1 280/464 310/31
 > MID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e60cd0fc
 > EDA: 20200703014600W-4
 > LEN: 1115
 > MAILER: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32) / OpenXP 5.0.45
 > X_C:
 > X-XP-NTP: 30
 > F-TO: Sean Dennis
 > X-XP-Charset: IBM437
                 ^^^^^^
=== Cut ===

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 AA> ³  Open \\//             5.0.45 (Win32) (c) 1992-99 Peter Mandrella  ³
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Ummmmmmm, not quite sure what's going on here, it's just as though OpenXP has
changed CP437 2 back to IBM437, IYSWIM ???????

Regards,
Martin

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