Hello mark,   
      
   On Fri Feb 10 2017 06:03:54, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    NB>> TimEd is probably trying to convert the UTF-8 Russian characters   
    NB>> to IBMPC, which won't happen.   
      
    ml> FWIW: there is no ""conversion""... it is simply displaying the glyphs   
    ml> represented by those raw bytes in their CP437 codepage positions...   
    ml> CP437 and other old-school codepage characters are only one byte   
    ml> wide... any ""conversion"" might come from translating between single   
    ml> byte codepages where the character glyph is transliterated from one   
    ml> position in the first codepage to another position in the second   
    ml> codepage where its glyph is stored... in that case, the raw byte   
    ml> changes because the position in the codepage changed and the byte is   
    ml> the position...   
      
   You say potato, etc..   
      
   Fact of the matter is CP437/IBMPC will not display Russian characters   
   properly, whether they're UTF-8 or not. The only somewhat possible way for him   
   to read it properly would be to change his default encoding to CP866 or   
   KOI8-R, and even then there is no guarantee that the translation from UTF-8   
   will work as expected.   
      
   Regards,   
   Nick   
      
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