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   Nancy Backus to Maurice Kinal   
   Re: cp437 characters   
   01 May 19 01:19:40   
   
   MSGID: 1:229/452 3A8429D2   
   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to mark lewis on 28-Apr-2019 05:14 <=-   
      
    MK> Prfungen sind bld.   
    MK> It is all fun and games until someone loses an .   
    MK> snan knns igen p ronen, den dumme p sina ord.   
    MK> I cannot find anything with the letter  in it.   
    MK> Isn't  the symbol for yen?   
    MK> The bottomline of this message is that it contains all the holes in   
    MK> CP1252 as well as a few that CP1252 shouldn't have issues with.  Also   
    MK> I am checking a routine I added to offline messaging on the node which   
    MK> should convert all the characters in question, as well as a few that   
    MK> aren't in question, to CP437 from their native UTF-8.  I am guessing   
    MK> it won't be an issue with you but if you notice anything out of place   
    MK> or missing it would be nice to know.    
      
   Interestingly, they all came through for me, too... except for the funny   
   'i'....  I see them in my editor as well as in the message(s) itself...   
      
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