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   Message 7,675 of 8,232   
   Maurice Kinal to Benny Pedersen   
   kernel 6.1   
   01 Jan 23 18:52:24   
   
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   Hey Benny!   
      
    BP> please dont fix msged then   
      
   No problem.  Same with golded.  There was never a plan to fix either of them   
   since they are more DOS-think then the idea I went with vim and utf-8.  I can   
   even get 8-bit eharacter sets working using the proper, standardized character   
   sets without altering a thing ... other than some bash scripts that is.   
      
    BP> in fidoterms latin-1 does exists   
      
   What is it then and why are some fido sysops using CP1252 while flying the   
   LATIN-1 flag.  This is assuming that LATIN-1 is indeed ISO-8859-1 which it   
   isn't.  According to IANA it is LATIN1.   
      
    BP> in iconv it does not   
      
   That is because the glibc people decided to follow reality.  There is no   
   LATIN-1.  It simply doesn't exist.   
      
    BP> i dont have references to why amiga did it, more or less maybe    
    BP> filesystem was build with latin-1 in mind   
      
   Or they just didn't do their homework and followed the DOS-think crowd while   
   they merrily skipped their way into obscurity.   
      
   If you have a keymap for Amiga's co-called LATIN-1 that will tell the tale.    
   I've never had anything to do with anything Amiga ever, but I am willing to   
   guess it's really LATIN1 (ISO-8859-1).   
      
    BP> feel free to not get an amiga emulator on linux   
      
   No worries.  If I do emulate anything it would be a Linux BBS based on   
   busybox, gcc-4 and friends.  It didn't have utf-8 working though.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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