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   Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal   
   Slackware 15.0   
   02 Oct 20 08:19:04   
   
   MSGID: 2:230/0 5f76e33d   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   REPLY: 2:280/464.113 5f76054d   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
   Hello Maurice!   
      
   01 Oct 2020 16:35, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>> i think SPOT on amiga is well designed to know why LATIN-1 is   
    BP>> well choiced   
      
    MK> So which one does amiga say LATIN-1 is?  ISO-8859-1, CP1250 or CP1252?   
      
   if a lotto copond only have this options, it would be more winners   
      
    BP>> blame 8-bit   
      
    MK> Nope.  It was never 8-bit that corrupted proper aliases for 8-bit    
    MK> character sets.   
      
   if computers was 32bit from the beginning, keyboard charset would have being   
   solved from the start, we today are limited to 7 bit with multiple problems to   
   solve, HTML works since it can be safely parsed as JSON    
      
   oh never mind got a new kernel....   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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