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   GOLDED      GoldED Public Release discussion.      2,690 messages   

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   Message 1,306 of 2,690   
   Joachim Probst to Richard Menedetter   
   Golded, IBMPC, special characters   
   06 Mar 20 17:53:58   
   
   REPLY: 2:310/31 5e60b2fd   
   MSGID: 2:240/6309 5e6280a9   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   Hello Richard!   
      
   05 Mar 20 08:06, you wrote to me:   
      
    JP>> I lately recognise some mis-display of special characters (like   
    JP>> the german Umlaute) when receiving a mail encoded with IBMPC as   
    JP>> stated in the encoding kludge line. Can anyone, maybe from within   
    JP>> germany, who is operating with IBMPC character set send me a mail   
    JP>> containing special characters? I would like to find out, if the   
    JP>> problem is on my side or the encoding is wrongly noted.   
      
    RM> Those people use wrong encoding.   
    RM> IBMPC does not inclide german umlauts.   
      
   I think so, yes, but IBMPC should default to CP437 and that contains Umlauts.   
      
   Thanks for your mails, I can now say, LATIN-1 goes fine, UTF-8 gets scrambled   
   in my GoldEd. So I have to take a closer look into that part.   
      
    RM> CU, Ricsi   
      
   Joachim   
      
      
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