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|    mark lewis to Shaun Buzza    |
|    UTF-8 Characters    |
|    05 Apr 22 08:59:36    |
      REPLY: 1:229/110 aa4e2529       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 624c3e66       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17        On 2022 Apr 03 19:57:50, you wrote to g00r00:               g0>> I do have a solution for that, but I think there always is going to        g0>> be some issue with various codepages and UTF8 only because they        g0>> cannot always convert between each other.               SB> I am really hoping that you can find a way to defeat this problem!              FWIW: there is no way that a ""character set"" like UTF-8 can have all of the       1114112 codepoints it contains converted into the mere 255 characters       contained in traditional codepages like CP437... there simply are not enough       character slots on both sides... if there were, we wouldn't need UTF-8 or all       of the various codepages in the first place ;)              )\/(ark              "The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my       majesty, ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a       shiny thing!"       ... I am curious, Do all Microsoft programmers do drugs?       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/5 15/0 18/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/116 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/0 25 115 131 180 200 755 129/305 330 331 135/300 138/146       SEEN-BY: 138/6502 153/7715 154/10 218/700 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 550 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 250/1 261/38 266/512 275/100 1000 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 299/6 300/4 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/11 200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 640/1321 712/848 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119 5020/1042       PATH: 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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