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In a message on Sunday 04-09-16 Maurice Kinal said to Holger Granholm:

Good morning Maurice,

MK> ............  The trick is to know what 8-bit charset to convert to
MK> and so-called latin-1 has been misidentified as iso-8859-1 by many
MK> (too many).  From what I've seen from the Windows crowd it probably
MK> is cp1252.  BTW latin1 is iso-8859-1.

Here you contradict yourself. In what sense do latin-1 and latin1 above,
differ?

MK> If you want a conversion to utf-8 let me know which characters and
MK> EXACTLY which 8-bit charset you actually use.  I am guessing cp437
MK> and that one is missing some of the characters required for Danish,
MK> such as the slashed 'o' character in Møøse for example.

The CP437 contains much more (2 times) characters than the oroginal
ASCII, that was limited to characters 00h to 7Fh. All 437 code tables
that Microsoft & IBM have distributed with their DOS operating systems,
do have a code table that stretches from 00h to FFh.

Regarding the slashed 'o' character, you find a lower case at E13h in
CP437 among the mathematical characters. But the combined AE an ae
letters used in danish are found in the CP437 table at 92h and 91h.

MK> That is because Benny used msged which grunges the codes.  Regular
MK> text editors don't despite the fact that they cannot display them
MK> properly.  They do quote them properly though unlike msged and
MK> golded.

That is the problem. Text coming from different writers, display
differently in a CP437 system. As long as there is no international
standard for the UTF-8 codes, I refrain from my idea to make a
converssion table in my text editor.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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