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 Message 933 
 Maurice Kinal to Nick Boel 
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 31 Jan 25 02:18:05 
 
MSGID: 1:153/7001 679c32dd
CHRS: UTF-8 4
Hey Nick!

> What in the world would be causing this to send in iso-8859-1 yet it
> tacks on a 'CHRS: CP437' kludge?

I always blame microsoft programmers when seeing things like you describe. 
You now have me wondering what would happen with cp866 or other 8-bit ibm
character sets.

> I'd prefer that they could read my reply properly in whatever
> charset they're using.

An honourable goal for sure.  However I have seen msg's that claim cp437 when
they're actually cp1252.  A certain Björn was famous for this behavior.

Life is good,
Maurice

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