Hallo Richard!

 RM> So could you please translate line 2 above for me.

I have done this multiple times now but since you asked nicely here we go
again; Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.

Anyhow I see the your quote of line 2 which I converted to latin1 before
packing confirms the your editor's LATIN-1 kludge is more than likely
ISO-8859-1 although it still might be CP1252 which often it is.  The hexdump
was a nice touch although not really needed.  Of note is the 0xfe character
which got buggered up on a test of a so-called LATIN-1 editor I did not too
long ago with the exact same line.  Obviously a buggy version of so-clled
LATIN-1.  No?

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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