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   Joachim Probst to Michiel van der Vlist   
   Golded, IBMPC, special characters   
   07 Mar 20 10:40:16   
   
   REPLY: 2:280/5555 5e629745   
   MSGID: 2:240/6309 5e636c62   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   Hello Michiel!   
      
   06 Mar 20 19:29, you wrote to me:   
      
    RM>>> Those people use wrong encoding.   
    RM>>> IBMPC does not inclide german umlauts.   
      
    JP>> I think so, yes, but IBMPC should default to CP437 and that   
    JP>> contains Umlauts.   
      
    MV> IBMPC was indeed originally meant to be CP437. But somehow it evolved   
    MV> to mean ANY IBM PC codepage and so another kludge was introduced as an   
    MV> addendum. The CODEPAGE kludge. All that is deprecated. The correct wat   
    MV> to indicate the encoding is the CHRS kludge.   
      
   Yes, I know, the mails in question do only have the IBMPC line, but before   
   looking for misconfigurations on others, I thought getting clear that there is   
   no misconfiguration on my side :)   
      
    MV> Cheers, Michiel   
      
   Joachim   
      
      
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