Subj : ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Apr 08 2019 19:17:10

Hey mark!

 ml> what idea? using that character as a soft-cr in fidonet?

Yes.  Are you aware of any FTN approved software that actually used that 
character as a soft line feed?  Most, if indeed not all, of the fidonet 
compatible editors I've seen in action used 8 bit character sets - 99.9% of 
which were the IBM character sets, CP437 being the number one codepage - which 
would produce an actual printable character for 0x8d and never a soft line 
feed, not even the ones that see 0x8d as a control code, such as iso-8859-1.

 ml> i'm not sure but it should be documented somewhere in the FTSC
 ml> documents

fts-0001.016 states, and I quote;

     So called 'soft' carriage returns, 8DH, may mark a previous
     processor's automatic line wrap, and should be ignored.
     Beware that they may be followed by linefeeds, or may not.

It doesn't say anywhere that applications that use 0x8d as a control code are 
FTN compliant or even compatible.  I'd guess by the above quote that they 
aren't given the 'should be ignored' part.

Life is good,
Maurice

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