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|    Michiel van der Vlist to Joachim Probst    |
|    Golded, IBMPC, special characters    |
|    07 Mar 20 12:32:17    |
      TID: FMail-W32 2.1.3.7-B20170919       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0100       CHRS: UTF-8 4       MSGID: 2:280/5555 5e638704       REPLY: 2:240/6309 5e636c62       Hello Joachim,              On Saturday March 07 2020 10:40, you wrote to me:               MV>> IBMPC was indeed originally meant to be CP437. But somehow it        MV>> evolved to mean ANY IBM PC codepage and so another kludge was        MV>> introduced as an addendum. The CODEPAGE kludge. All that is        MV>> deprecated. The correct wat to indicate the encoding is the CHRS        MV>> kludge.              Ss documented in FTS-5003: http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001               JP> Yes, I know, the mails in question do only have the IBMPC line, but        JP> before looking for misconfigurations on others, I thought getting        JP> clear that there is no misconfiguration on my side :)              This is what I have in my Golded.cfg:              XlatCharSetAlias LATIN-1 LATIN       XlatCharSetAlias LATIN-1 ISO-8859-1       XlatcharSetAlias LATIN-1 LATIN1       XlatCharSetAlias CP437 IBMPC       XlatCharSetAlias CP850 IBMPC       XlatCharsetAlias CP850 PC-8       XlatCharSetAlias CP1252 WINDOWS       XlatCharSetAlias NORWEIG ISO646-NO       XlatCharSetAlias DUTCH ISO664-NL       XlatCharSetalias SWEDISH ISO664-SE       XlatCharSetAlias SWEDISH ISO-60       XlatCharSetAlias CP866 +7_FIDO       Xlatcharsetalias CP866 +7                     Cheers, Michiel              --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303        * Origin: http://www.vlist.eu (2:280/5555)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 5555       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 410/9 423/120       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 5019/40 5020/1042 5053/58       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 280/5555 464 229/426           |
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