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 Message 301 
 Tim Schattkowsky to Carlos Navarro 
 Re: CP850 
 18 Jan 22 11:37:04 
 
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//Hello Carlos,//

on *18.01.22* at *8:54:33* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"CP850"*.

 CN> 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 ?

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

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

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

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

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

Ok, will add it. You have to test ;)

Regards,
Tim
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