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|    mark lewis to Maurice Kinal    |
|    all for one    |
|    30 Aug 19 23:40:02    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 781.fido-asianlin@1:3634/12 21cf251f       REPLY: 1:153/7001 5d69e6bc       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Aug 18 2019 GCC        TID: SBBSecho 3.08-Linux r3.134 Aug 18 2019 GCC 7.4.0       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.99        Re: all for one        By: Maurice Kinal to mark lewis on Sat Aug 31 2019 03:17:16               > ml> i'm ~12 days behind right now        >        > Not bad. From what I've see most of fidonet is at least 2 decades out of       step,        > probably closer to 3 decades. ;-)              hahaha, they're also not running actively developed systems straight out of CVS        ;)               > ml> they can be converted but not to a single glyph        >        > That is why I put the hex codes instead of the corresponding unicode.              right... what i meant was they could be converted to the ASCII representations       :) or :-) and .) or .-) or whatever fits the emoticon being used...               > So for "PERSON FROWNING" on a CP437 display you should see that f0 = ð, 9f       = Ÿ, 99 = ™, and 8d = , which is the infamous "loses an eye" character.              not familiar with that "loses an eye" one... frown might be }:| or similar       where the } is furrowed eyebrows... sometimes it is also used for horns as in       anger...               > Where your editor got the single upside down question mark seems odd to me,              actually it is quite common... a character is chosen and used to represent       glyphs that cannot be converted... in this case, the upsidedown question mark       is used...                     )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.08-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 18/200 57/0 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0       SEEN-BY: 226/17 227/114 229/354 426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 267/800 280/464 5003 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/0 1 100 330 340 772/0       SEEN-BY: 772/1 210 500       PATH: 3634/12 153/7715 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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