On 2017 Jun 22 22:20:24, you wrote to me:

 ml>> it looks just like quoted above ;)

 MK> If indeed it is CP437 then it looks nothing like it is quoted since they
 MK> are utf-8 characters to a capable editor.

so dump that UTF-8 capable editor and see them how i and others saw them...

 ml>> 4bytes 2bytes 2bytes 2bytes 2bytes 3bytes 3bytes 2bytes

 MK> Nope.  The first one (Euro symbol) is 3 bytes

they all have the byte counts i stated... i don't care what symbols or
characters they are...

 MK> €

0xE2 0x7E 0x42 0xAB

 MK> Š

0xC5 0xA0

 MK> š

0xC5 0xA1

 MK> Ž

0xC5 0xBD

 MK> ž

0xC5 0xBE

 MK> Œ

0xC5 0x7E 0x52

 MK> œ

0xC5 0x75 0x53

 MK> Ÿ

0xC5 0xB8


this link is of the original message as viewed on my screen...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/acvlk6n81lgtksl/maurice%20and%20UTF-8%20stuff%20%231.png?dl=0


this link is of the original as viewed with GoldEd's "info" view
which includes hex dumps... it will really trip you out (as it did me)
because it does not depict the ones with the tilde "~" as three
byte entities like they are displayed...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zwvdlrn8bhrcrjq/maurice%20and%20UTF-8%20stuff%20%232.png?dl=0


have fun :)

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