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 Message 786 
 Benny Pedersen to Flavio Bessa 
 Support for CP850 
 27 Jul 18 17:07:12 
 
Hello Flavio!

26 Jul 2018 11:25, Flavio Bessa wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 FB> I understand, but the problem is not with me specifically.

+1

 FB> The Brazilian Portuguese echos of Fido (BR.*) use CP850 
 FB> especifically by design and by some old software thatīs still in use, 
 FB> hence everyone write there using CP850, even myself (I change my CHRS 
 FB> for the BR.* echos)

yes this is incomming translate, with should handle all valid fidonet
charsets, if hotdoged store all in utf7, it would be possible to reply more or
less to all desired fidonet charsets, utf7 is very nice and limit to keep 8bit
chars as multibyte, if it was utf8 all 8bit chars takes double on storage space

 FB> In that case, it would be awesome to have CP850 support for 
 FB> HOTDOGED.

+1

just not for outgoing maps


 Regards Benny

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