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 Message 299 
 Carlos Navarro to Tim Schattkowsky 
 CP850 
 18 Jan 22 09:54:33 
 
TID: FMail-W32 2.0.1.4
TZUTC: 0100
CHRS: CP850 2
MSGID: 2:341/234 61e68067
REPLY: 2:240/1120.29 20463283
16 Jan 2022 23:09, you wrote to me:

 CN>> It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.

 TS> Isn't that just Latin-1 ?

- LATIN-1 in Fido is ISO 8859-1
- CP850 is Code page 850 (also known as DOS Latin 1)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

See FTS-5003, 4. Known character set identifiers
http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

In Spanish echos you can find messages in CP437, LATIN-1, CP850 and UTF-8.
I think that Brazilian/Portuguese also use CP850 a lot.

GoldEd+ in Windows uses CP850 by default (though you can configure it to
convert to/from other encodings)

This message is in CP850. Here's an example:
¨Qu‚ cige¤a vol˘ aŁn m s ahĄ?

Carlos
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