Hello Maurice!

12 Jun 2018 12:53, Maurice Kinal wrote to Richard Menedetter:

 MK> Hallo Richard!

 RM>> Microsoft calls it "Code Page 850 MS-DOS Latin 1"

 MK> Given this is the LINUX echo and that the vast majority of linux 
 MK> systems are glibc based, then this should take precedence;

 MK> -={ grep "IBM850//" /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules }=-
 MK> alias    CP850//            IBM850//
 MK> alias    850//            IBM850//
 MK> alias    CSPC850MULTILINGUAL//    IBM850//
 MK> alias    OSF10020352//        IBM850//
 MK> module    IBM850//        INTERNAL        IBM850        1
 MK> module    INTERNAL        IBM850//        IBM850        1

   ----- LATIN begins -----
alias   LATIN1//                ISO-8859-1//
alias   CSISOLATIN1//           ISO-8859-1//
alias   LATIN2//                ISO-8859-2//
alias   CSISOLATIN2//           ISO-8859-2//
alias   LATIN3//                ISO-8859-3//
alias   CSISOLATIN3//           ISO-8859-3//
alias   LATIN4//                ISO-8859-4//
alias   CSISOLATIN4//           ISO-8859-4//
alias   CSISOLATINCYRILLIC//    ISO-8859-5//
alias   CSISOLATINARABIC//      ISO-8859-6//
alias   CSISOLATINGREEK//       ISO-8859-7//
alias   CSISOLATINHEBREW//      ISO-8859-8//
alias   LATIN5//                ISO-8859-9//
alias   CSISOLATIN5//           ISO-8859-9//
alias   LATIN6//                ISO-8859-10//
alias   CSISOLATIN6//           ISO-8859-10//
alias   LATIN7//                ISO-8859-13//
alias   LATIN8//                ISO-8859-14//
alias   LATIN-9//               ISO-8859-15//
alias   LATIN9//                ISO-8859-15//
alias   LATIN10//               ISO-8859-16//
alias   ISO-IR-19//             LATIN-GREEK//
alias   CSISO19LATINGREEK//     LATIN-GREEK//
alias   LATINGREEK//            LATIN-GREEK//
module  LATIN-GREEK//           INTERNAL                LATIN-GREEK     1
module  INTERNAL                LATIN-GREEK//           LATIN-GREEK     1
alias   ISO-IR-27//             LATIN-GREEK-1//
alias   CSISO27LATINGREEK1//    LATIN-GREEK-1//
alias   LATINGREEK1//           LATIN-GREEK-1//
module  LATIN-GREEK-1//         INTERNAL                LATIN-GREEK-1   1
module  INTERNAL                LATIN-GREEK-1//         LATIN-GREEK-1   1
alias   CSPC862LATINHEBREW//    IBM862//
alias   OS2LATIN1//             IBM1004//
   ----- LATIN ends -----

is much more what is in use on fidonet

 MK> Looks to me that IBM should be the goto guys as far as what CP850 
 MK> should be called and the only hit I could come up with that might help 
 MK> settle the issue is;

ibm breaked alot of codepage imho when the battle was done with compaq and
other firms belive to have a solved problem solved, we all know today its not
solved, not even for fidonet to see multibyte solutions to a single byte
computer system like commodore 64

 MK> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_9.1.1/com.ibm.et
 MK> ools.cbl.win.doc/topics/rlinfcpg.htm

 MK> However I cannot access it since it requires javascript and I do not 
 MK> have a browser that supports javascript

who breaked this for you ? :)

 MK> and I have no plans to ever 
 MK> have a browser with javascript capabilities.

+1

 MK> For the record the 
 MK> Microsoft link you gave worked fine without javascript.

if just webmasters do a better job, GDPR would never be needed

 MK>  Also I have 
 MK> no plans to convert or ever use CP850 so it really doesn't matter what 
 MK> it is really called, or if it even matters in the grand scheme of 
 MK> things.  IBM can keep it.

+1

 MK> Stinkin' IBM.

fun things is you showed ibm


 Regards Benny

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