-=> Leonard Erickson wrote to William McBrine <=-

 LE> On the other hand "soft-CRs" don't conflict with the
ISO-8859 character
 LE> set. 227 is lowercase a with a tilde in most ISO character sets.

On the third hand, ISO character sets are rarely used with QWK, which is
centered around IBM PC code pages. I'd go so far as to say that it's an
error to dump ISO text to a QWK packet; but few QWK-handling programs
bother with conversion. (MultiMail is one that does.) QWK messages normally
don't include Fido kludge lines, and there's no other way to flag different
character sets in QWK. :-(

 LE> What if the original text has a 227 character in it? Does QWK
"escape"
 LE> that character? Or introduce an unwanted newline?

There's no provision for escaping it, so it would have to be converted.

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