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echo: golded
to: RICHARD MENEDETTER
from: OLI
date: 2020-03-05 14:25:00
subject: Golded, IBMPC, special ch

05 Mar 20 08:06, you wrote to Joachim Probst:

 JP>> I lately recognise some mis-display of special characters (like the
german
 JP>> Umlaute) when receiving a mail encoded with IBMPC as stated in the
encoding
 JP>> kludge line. Can anyone, maybe from within germany, who is operating with
 JP>> IBMPC character set send me a mail containing special characters? I would
like
 JP>> to find out, if the problem is on my side or the encoding is wrongly
noted.

 RM> Those people use wrong encoding.
 RM> IBMPC does not inclide german umlauts.

Yes, it does. IBMPC is an obsolete identifier and was used for different
European charactersets. For umlauts it sholdn't make much of a difference, they
are at the same position in CP437 (US) and CP850 (Latin 1, DOS default for
German).

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