Subj : Golded, IBMPC, special characters
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Joachim Probst
Date : Fri Mar 06 2020 17:53:58

Hello Richard!

05 Mar 20 08:06, you wrote to me:

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

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

I think so, yes, but IBMPC should default to CP437 and that contains Umlauts.

Thanks for your mails, I can now say, LATIN-1 goes fine, UTF-8 gets scrambled 
in my GoldEd. So I have to take a closer look into that part.

 RM> CU, Ricsi

Joachim


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