Hello Maurice!

29 Mar 15 22:30, you wrote to me:

 MK> Or CHRS for that matter, with or without a levels parameter.

 That was actually what I was referring to.

 MK> I have yet to run across latin-9

 Have a look at messages by Lee Lofaso.

 MK>  but have seen people try to pass off
 MK> cp-1252 as latin1 which is equally as bogus as trying to pass off
 MK> latin-9
 MK> as ibmpc.  Also I have seen people trying to pass off cp1251 as koi8-r.

 It's a can of worms.

 MK> utf-8 is the *only* way to go.

 Unfortunately many sysops are here for nastalgic reasons, using nostalgic
 OS'ses and nostalgic software. So UTF-8 is ok, as long as you stick to the
 first 127 codepoints.

 MK>   8-bit character sets never stood a
 MK> chance.
 MK> Even 7-bit can get convoluted and I have run across a few nonstandardized
 MK> 7-bit charsets in the past (ie not ascii) as well as a few standardized
 MK> ones that differ somewhat from ascii.

 Yes, I still intend to make a conversion table for EBCDIC, to add to the
confusion. The real fun there is that there are again language specific
 versions. ;)

Kees

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