Subj : that trick never works
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Apr 13 2019 11:42:02

 On 2019 Apr 13 01:53:36, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hallo mark!

 MK> Whoa!  Something funky just happened.  I am seeing all sorts of weirdness
 MK> in your reply and that is from all 3 paths, although 1 of the paths has
the
 MK> word wrapping while the other two doesn't.  Offhand I don't see how a
 MK> single 0x8d could have caused it but perhaps it did, which makes the
 MK> schpiel about it in fts-0001.016 very much foreboding ... if indeed that
is
 MK> what caused what I am seeing.

if that's the post i think it was, i included a graphic of a rainbow over a pot
 of gold...

 ml>> i may not have the UTF-8 -> CP437 conversion stuff right

 MK> What's to get right?  Just try this on a commandline;

we don't do that here... that's all outside of our setup with GoldED and
totally alien...

 MK>     echo -e "\x8d" | iconv -f cp437 -t utf8

 MK> If you cannot display utf8 characters on your shell then add another pipe
 MK> such as this;

i didn't say that i couldn't... i said i had done numerous things to switch to
something that would show CP437 properly...

 ml>> all without having to fark around with some other 3rd party
 ml>> muckity muck with your fingers crossed that it will come out
 ml>> properly and not be all screwed up

 MK> Exactly how is that all working out for you?

as i said, i tried numerous things and nothing seemed to work as expected...
not even changing the font to something with more than a 256 position table of
glyphs...

)\/(ark

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