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   Wilfred van Velzen to Michiel van der Vlist   
   Re: Request   
   28 Apr 14 15:56:41   
   
   Hi Michiel,   
      
   On 2014-04-28 15:11:02, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV> Under  "Miscellaneous", "Message base", there is a switch "Remove   
    MvdV> lf/soft cr".   
      
    MvdV> I would like to break this into two seperate switches, one for LF   
    MvdV> and one for SR.   
      
    MvdV> Because:   
      
    MvdV> Treating the SR (hex 8D) as a special character in Fidonet messages   
    MvdV> is a legacy from the Wordstar age. It may have been a good idea when   
    MvdV> Fidonet was conceived, but these days it is treated as a printable   
    MvdV> character in most character sets. Notably in the character set most   
    MvdV> used in Fidonet messaging: CP866. 0x8D can also be part of a well   
    MvdV> formed UTF-8 sequence. So removing the soft return is not a good   
    MvdV> idea in most cases today.   
      
    MvdV> The LF OTOH should not occur in the body of Fidonet messages. They   
    MvdV> do appear however when an external text editor such as edit or   
    MvdV> notepad is used in combination with some Fidonet editors like   
    MvdV> Golded.   
      
    MvdV> The specs say, that when encountered, LFs should be ignored, so it   
    MvdV> is not really harmful, but it annoys certain hard line nitpickers   
    MvdV> among us, so an option to remove LFs is useful in order to apease   
    MvdV> them.   
      
   This sounds reasonable. I'll look into it...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
   --- FMail-W32-1.68.1.61-B20140411   
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