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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: JOACHIM PROBST
date: 2020-03-07 10:39:00
subject: Golded, IBMPC, special ch

Hello Michiel!

06 Mar 20 19:29, you wrote to me:

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

 JP>> I think so, yes, but IBMPC should default to CP437 and that
 JP>> contains Umlauts.

 MV> IBMPC was indeed originally meant to be CP437. But somehow it evolved
 MV> to mean ANY IBM PC codepage and so another kludge was introduced as an
 MV> addendum. The CODEPAGE kludge. All that is deprecated. The correct wat
 MV> to indicate the encoding is the CHRS kludge.

Yes, I know, the mails in question do only have the IBMPC line, but before
looking for misconfigurations on others, I thought getting clear that there is
no misconfiguration on my side :)

 MV> Cheers, Michiel

Joachim


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