REPLY: 1:153/7001.2989 5d6bf5e8   
   MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d6c1e35   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
      
    On 2019 Sep 01 16:46:32, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> i thought you were talking about an emoticon... that i character   
    ml>> is not an emoticon ;)   
      
    MK> Two of the 8 bytes are.  In fact the last trailing byte in each of the   
    MK> 32-bit emoticons sent which is why I specifically picked those two   
    MK> emoticons since they both end in 0x8d from an 8-bit perspective (eg "CHRS:   
    MK> CP437 2").  No?   
      
   okaaaay... but i was taking them as a whole and not in parts and pieces :shrug:   
      
    ml>> it seems to depend on the font used by the displaying tool   
      
    MK> The empty recangular box would work for me.  However it should only print   
    MK> on the screen and not replace the actual glyph (<-whatever) in the msg, or   
    MK> a reply, containing that glyph.   
      
   ok so how do you propose to do that from a BBS? how can the proper characters   
   be sent to a logged in user's dumb terminal that cannot translate on its own?   
   AFAIK, you cannot... the BBS has to do the translation and the editor has to   
   work with what is sent to the user's terminal so the glyphs are properly   
   rendered in the editor as they are in the reader...   
      
   )\/(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.   
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