Subj : Re^3: Nomination
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Fri Feb 28 2025 19:14:52

//Hello Rob,//

on *27.02.2025* at *20:36:22* You wrote in Area *FTSC_PUBLIC*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"Re^2: Nomination"*.

 RS>   Re: Re^2: Nomination
 RS>   By: Tim Schattkowsky to Rob Swindell on Thu Feb 27 2025 03:30 pm

 >> Hello Rob,
 RS>  >
 >> on 27.02.2025 at 7:05:46 You wrote in Area FTSC_PUBLIC to Tim Schattkowsky
 >> about "Re: Nomination".
 RS>  >
 >>  >> this area we see clearly that in reality there is almost no CP437 and
 >> a
 >>  >> busload if IBMPC ...
 RS>  >
 >>  RS> Are you talking about the CHRS kludge values?
 RS>  >
 >> Yes.
 RS>  >
 >>  RS> Here's the counts as I see for this area currently:
 RS>  >
 >>  RS> $ grep -c CHRS.*IBMPC
 >>  RS> 70
 RS>  >
 >>  RS> $ grep -c CHRS.*CP437
 >>  RS> 516
 RS>  >
 >>  RS> $ grep -c CHRS.*UTF-8
 >>  RS> 686
 RS>  >
 >> Okay, you just figured out what people are TALKING about ;) Searching for
 >> actual kludge values may yield different results.
 RS>  >
 >> Anyway, my search was also wrong. Correct results for my message base
 >> (dating back for this area to 2006, cannot say if there are holes in time)
 >> are:
 RS>  >
 >> IBMPC: 2245
 >> CP437: 3385

 RS> There are other charsets too, most importantly: ASCII

 >> Different numbers, but still they show that there is a quite lot of usage
 >> of IBMPC and you have to admit, that this echo might attract more than
 >> average of CP437 advocates.
 RS>  >
 >> Simple question: Name advantages and disadvantages of using CP437 in
 >> outgoing messages!

 RS> If the message only contains 7-bit ASCII chars, I think it should fly the
 RS> "ASCII" CHRS kludge value, not CP437. Hopefully that's what this message
 RS> is reporting! :-)

Generally, this is more about the system capabilites than the actual message. So even if most messages from a user of a certain system are plain ASCII, there may be all thos borders and ASCII art that are sometimes also used that need a clear definition beyond ASCII.  

Regards,
Tim

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