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 Message 98 
 Chris Jacobs to Michiel van der Vlist 
 Re: UTF-8 nodelist report 
 25 Feb 23 21:34:00 
 
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PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Win32 master/12f48d226 Feb 24 2023 MSC 1929
TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/b802e8326 Feb 24 2023 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: VERT
CHRS: CP437 2
-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Chris Jacobs <=-

 MvV> Hello Chris,

 MvV> On Friday February 24 2023 17:49, you wrote to me:

 MvV>> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,S?ve,Bj÷rn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V34

 CJ> Wanneer wordt die legacy umlaut eindelijk eens verwijderd?

 MvV> Why do you call it "legacy? It is just wrongly encoded. The enconding
 MvV> is Latin-1 while it should be UTF-8.

I call the latin-number codepages and the DOS codepages and the Windows
codepages all legacy, regardles if they are wrongly encoded or not.
This seems in line with http://unicode.org/iuc/iuc15/tb1/slides.pdf

 MvV> I just report the error, it is not in my power to correct it. That is
 MvV> the job of the *Cs.

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 MvV> Your message was encoded in CP437. That does not work well for quoting
 MvV> UTF-8 text...

I see. That is a Vertrauen BBS thing.

 MvV> Cheers, Michiel

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