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   Hallo mark!   
      
    ml> they don't appear in this editor properly but i hope they will in   
    ml> the final posted reply   
      
   Given you're replying with an editor with "CHRS: CP437 2" set, which is an   
   8-bit character encoding and the original characters were 32-bit, then the   
   answer is that they are no longer what they were intended to be.  I see them   
   both as 0xa8 in your quote which in CP437-speak is the upside down question   
   mark.  There are no emoticons in CP437 so the original characters cannot be   
   converted to CP437 ... or any other 8-bit IBM/MS character sets that I am   
   aware of.   
      
   From my perspective the true quote test will come from Nancy since she has a   
   real text editor (emacs) that doesn't mess with characters despite the fact   
   she also lacks suitable fonts to view them.  So unless her offline host has   
   the "loses an eye" bug everything should be okee-dokee.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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