-=> Quoting William McBrine to mark lewis <=-

 -=> mark lewis wrote to Nancy Backus <=-
 
 ml> another silly item is that soft carriage return that QWK stuff uses...
 ml> its the lowercase i with an apostrophe over it instead of the dot...

 WM> QWK does NOT use soft CRs. QWK has its own line delimiter, character
 WM> 227, which is the Pi symbol in IBM CP437. I don't know how Fido got
 WM> stuck with soft CRs (or why some software is still producing them), but
 WM> it's got nothing to do with QWK.

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


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