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|    Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal    |
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|    01 Jan 23 18:03:12    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 63b1ccec       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 63af619b       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Maurice!              30 Dec 2022 22:09, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:               BP>> would not help have full fleged utf8 when old precompiled amiga         BP>> software only have latin-1               MK> Definetly not for two very good reasons; no amiga hardware and no such         MK> thing as latin-1.              please dont fix msged then, if anything should be changed you should in vim       make valid w3.org text (HTML) :)               BP>> if people understand why its not happend we could all use latin-1        MK> Nope. We have no use for things that do not exist, such as latin-1.         MK> Personally I vote for 7-bit ascii characters and to hell with stinkin'         MK> human languages.              in fidoterms latin-1 does exists, in iconv it does not              i dont have references to why amiga did it, more or less maybe filesystem was       build with latin-1 in mind               MK> A bunch of heathen bastards if you ask me. :-)              feel free to not get an amiga emulator on linux               MK> Life is good,        MK> Maurice              don't blame me then                      Regards Benny              ... too late to die young :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.1.1-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/709 120/340 123/131       SEEN-BY: 124/5016 129/305 153/757 7715 154/10 201/0 203/0 124 412       SEEN-BY: 218/700 221/0 1 226/30 229/110 111 112 113 114 206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/400 424 426 428 452 470 550 616 664 700 230/0 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/789 854 8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 410/9 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/545       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 292/854 229/426           |
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