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Hello Rob,

On Sunday February 26 2023 22:11, you wrote to me:

 >> > But oddly enough Synchronat BBS anwers in CP437 when quote replying
 >> to an UTF-8 encoded > message...  And this reply is being written using
 >> a UTF-8 terminal.

 RS> And this reply is being written using a UTF-8 terminal with some
 RS> actual non-ASCII characters:

All three of your messages have non-ASCCI charcters. They all have the degree
character '°' in the sign off, or whatver you call it. In the last message it
is also present in the message test before the "--" (two dashes).

 RS> Norco, CA WX: 42.0°F, 79.0% humidity, 0 mph NE wind, 0.15 inches
 RS> rain/24hrs

Considering that the CHRS kludge applies to the entire message, I think it is
more logical to look at the entire message including header, footer en origin
lines to determine the encoding.

Other than that: my comment was on Chris' message that was a quote-reply to my
message. He quoted the UTF-8 encoded text but the reply was in CP437 thereby
messing up the quote.

Chris seems to have a preference for doing away with "legacy" encodings, so I
was a bit surprised that his reply was encoded in CP437 instead of UTF-8.


Cheers, Michiel

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