Subj : Golded, IBMPC, special characters
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Oli
Date : Thu Mar 05 2020 14:26:04

05 Mar 20 08:06, you wrote to Joachim Probst:

 JP>> I lately recognise some mis-display of special characters (like the 
german
 JP>> Umlaute) when receiving a mail encoded with IBMPC as stated in the 
encoding
 JP>> kludge line. Can anyone, maybe from within germany, who is operating with
 JP>> IBMPC character set send me a mail containing special characters? I would 
like
 JP>> to find out, if the problem is on my side or the encoding is wrongly 
noted.

 RM> Those people use wrong encoding.
 RM> IBMPC does not inclide german umlauts.

Yes, it does. IBMPC is an obsolete identifier and was used for different 
European charactersets. For umlauts it sholdn't make much of a difference, they 
are at the same position in CP437 (US) and CP850 (Latin 1, DOS default for 
German).

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