Subj : Golded, IBMPC, special characters
To   : Joachim Probst
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Mar 06 2020 19:29:58

Hello Joachim,

On Friday March 06 2020 17:53, you wrote to Richard Menedetter:

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

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

IBMPC was indeed originally meant to be CP437. But somehow it evolved to mean 
ANY IBM PC codepage and so another kludge was introduced as an addendum. The 
CODEPAGE kludge. 
All that is deprecated. The correct wat to indicate the encoding is the CHRS 
kludge.


Cheers, Michiel

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