On 2017 May 26 12:42:26, you wrote to me:

 ml>> see what i mean about no character set control line?

 MK> I fail to see your point.  If you cannot readily see that those are Danish
 MK> characters then obviously you shouldn't be converting them since they
 MK> cannot be converted to CP437 which is what CHRS kludge you are currently
 MK> flying for some reason.

i can't convert them because all i see is two bytes for each character... if
the message carried a character set control line, my system would have a better
chance at displaying them properly for me no matter what character set i
/write/ with... consider if i read everything in UTF-8 but write in CP437...
the character set control line is to help others know what you used when you
wrote the message so they can display it correctly... or at least try to by
converting it to the local character set of their local display...

in other words, what character set i read in should not matter one iota to
you... what character set i write in is what should concern you so your system
can possibly convert and display my message in your local character set...

)\/(ark

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