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In a message on Saturday 04-22-16 Maurice Kinal said to Holger Granholm:

Howdy Maurice,

 HG> Todays CP437 is the same as PC8.

MK> Let's see;

MK>   :read !grep 'PC8' /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules
MK> alias CSPC8CODEPAGE437// IBM437//
MK> alias CSPC850MULTILINGUAL// IBM850//
MK> alias CSPC862LATINHEBREW// IBM862//

MK> Are the above aliases the same?

Of course not. As you can see from the quoted text below.

MK> I am guessing PC8 is CSPC8CODEPAGE437.  Also CP437 is an alias for
MK> IBM437 as well so it makes sense.

Correct.

MK> Looks to me like there are other encodings for *PC8*.

If you only look at the standard characters in CP437 that may be true.

 HG> CP850 (Multilingual), adds some more umlaut and accented
 HG> characters, but does also reduce the number of graphic, (line
 HG> dawing) "characters".

MK> I've never had a use for line drawing characters in text messaging. 

Neither do I normally, but the BBS software I'm using is text mode, so
I've used all these line drawing characters to make all the menu's.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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