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In a message dated 11-26-14, Maurice Kinal said to Nicholas Boel:

Good morning Maurice,

 NB> My terminal uses UTF-8, and while I can convert *some* things from 
 NB> other codepages to UTF-8 with the limitations of the ".chs" charset 
 NB> files, I cannot convert back. So I just choose to post strictly 
 NB> with UTF-8. :)

MK> Definetly a solid plan as conversion back to any 8-bit character set
MK> isn't all that trivial as well as can and does cause grief for other
MK> 8-bit systems, the most notable is with IBM/MS codepages and any ISO
MK> based codepages.  This never happens with utf-8 characters simply
MK> because they will never match any of the ISO C1 control characters.
 
While my grandson is over in the US he is sending me UTF-8 coded mail.
It's readable but a bit annoying, so I have started to further develop
the conversion program that I have compiled into my Semware Editor v1.0.

From my GS's first letter I have already picked up the lower case umlaut
characters used in Europe. Now I'll ask him to also write the upper case
in his next mail to me so that I'll get the codes that IBM PC-8 shows in
reading UTF-8 coded text. I will also need the german � and � characters
and the german � character could also be compiled into the set.

I have already many years ago programmed conversion sets from/to
ASCII, Latin 1, Mac and HTML to IBM PC-8 into the editor. The work
in progress will be to include conversions from/to UTF-8 / PC-8.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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