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|    Benny Pedersen to Flavio Bessa    |
|    Support for CP850    |
|    27 Jul 18 17:07:12    |
      Hello Flavio!              26 Jul 2018 11:25, Flavio Bessa wrote to Benny Pedersen:               FB> I understand, but the problem is not with me specifically.              +1               FB> The Brazilian Portuguese echos of Fido (BR.*) use CP850         FB> especifically by design and by some old software thatīs still in use,         FB> hence everyone write there using CP850, even myself (I change my CHRS         FB> for the BR.* echos)              yes this is incomming translate, with should handle all valid fidonet       charsets, if hotdoged store all in utf7, it would be possible to reply more or       less to all desired fidonet charsets, utf7 is very nice and limit to keep 8bit       chars as multibyte, if it was utf8 all 8bit chars takes double on storage space               FB> In that case, it would be awesome to have CP850 support for         FB> HOTDOGED.              +1              just not for outgoing maps                      Regards Benny              ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/4.17.10-gentoo (x86_64))        * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)    |
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