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   Oli to Richard Menedetter   
   Golded, IBMPC, special characters   
   05 Mar 20 14:26:04   
   
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   05 Mar 20 08:06, you wrote to Joachim Probst:   
      
    JP>> I lately recognise some mis-display of special characters (like the   
   german   
    JP>> Umlaute) when receiving a mail encoded with IBMPC as stated in the   
   encoding   
    JP>> kludge line. Can anyone, maybe from within germany, who is operating with   
    JP>> IBMPC character set send me a mail containing special characters? I   
   would like   
    JP>> to find out, if the problem is on my side or the encoding is wrongly   
   noted.   
      
    RM> Those people use wrong encoding.   
    RM> IBMPC does not inclide german umlauts.   
      
   Yes, it does. IBMPC is an obsolete identifier and was used for different   
   European charactersets. For umlauts it sholdn't make much of a difference,   
   they are at the same position in CP437 (US) and CP850 (Latin 1, DOS default   
   for German).   
      
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