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Hey Maurice!

On Thu, Jan 30 2025 04:39:19 +0000, you wrote ..

> No doubt.  ibm437 lacks the proper characters for conversion from old 
> english.  You'd have better luck with iso-8859-1 but I believe even 
> that lacks at least a couple of proper characters for old english.

I'm well aware of all that. It's this program's configuration that's kind of
baffling me (slrn, tin, and alpine do not and have not acted this way). What
in the world would be causing this to send in iso-8859-1 yet it tacks on a
'CHRS: CP437' kludge? Sigh..

I found a new setting that I wasn't previously using. 'assumed_charset' is no
longer being used since iconv should be able to detect the charset, anyways.

set send_charset = us-ascii:ibm437:utf-8

.. is seeming to do the trick with a few more tests after my multiple posts
here last night.
 
> utf-8 is the way to go.  Speaking for myself ascii is what I use on a 
> daily basis.
 
I agree. However, if I do (usually accidentally) quote someone's CP437
characters, in some sort of politeness/etiquette/whatever you want to call it,
I suppose, I'd prefer that they could read my reply properly in whatever
charset they're using.

Regards,
Nick

... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
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