REPLY: 2:280/464.113 5d698b72   
   MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d69bdd0   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
      
    On 2019 Aug 30 20:47:46, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> they don't appear in this editor properly but i hope they will in the   
    ml>> final posted reply   
      
    MK> Given you're replying with an editor with "CHRS: CP437 2" set,   
      
   that is a flaw that has been corrected IIUC... i should update my system to   
   get the latest bleeding edge code... i'm ~12 days behind right now...   
      
    MK> which is an 8-bit character encoding and the original characters were   
    MK> 32-bit, then the answer is that they are no longer what they were   
    MK> intended to be.   
      
   funny thing is they worked previously in both reading and writing but code   
   changes...   
      
    MK> I see them both as 0xa8 in your quote which in CP437-speak is the   
    MK> upside down question mark.   
      
   yup... that's what i saw in the editor...   
      
    MK> There are no emoticons in CP437 so the original characters cannot be   
    MK> converted to CP437 ... or any other 8-bit IBM/MS character sets that I   
    MK> am aware of.   
      
   true... to a point... they can be converted but not to a single glyph...   
      
    MK> From my perspective the true quote test will come from Nancy since she   
    MK> has a real text editor (emacs) that doesn't mess with characters   
    MK> despite the fact she also lacks suitable fonts to view them.  So   
    MK> unless her offline host has the "loses an eye" bug everything should   
    MK> be okee-dokee.   
      
   this also depends on which system she quotes from... i know that she visits   
   like 4 or 5 BBS systems most every day...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would   
   set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.   
   ... Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.   
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