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|    Maurice Kinal to Benny Pedersen    |
|    kernel 6.1    |
|    01 Jan 23 18:52:24    |
      REPLY: 2:230/0 63b1ccec       MSGID: 1:153/7001.2989 63b1d668       TZUTC: -0000       CHRS: UTF-8 4       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              -o -o -o -o -o o- o- -o -o -o -o -o o- -o -o -o        (\ (\ (\ (\ (\ /) /) (\ (\ (\ (\ (\ /) (\ (\ (\        ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^       ... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.       --- GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: One of us @ (1:153/7001.2989)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/709 120/340 123/131       SEEN-BY: 124/5016 129/305 134/100 153/135 141 757 6809 7001 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 218/700 221/0 1 6 226/30 229/110 111 112 113 114 206       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 616 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 267/67 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/789 854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 410/9 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 5020/545       PATH: 153/7001 757 280/464 292/854 229/426           |
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