Subj : Golded, IBMPC, special characters
To   : Joachim Probst
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Mar 07 2020 12:32:17

Hello Joachim,

On Saturday March 07 2020 10:40, you wrote to me:

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

Ss documented in FTS-5003:  http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

 JP> Yes, I know, the mails in question do only have the IBMPC line, but
 JP> before looking for misconfigurations on others, I thought getting
 JP> clear that there is no misconfiguration on my side :)

This is what I have in my Golded.cfg:

XlatCharSetAlias LATIN-1 LATIN
XlatCharSetAlias LATIN-1 ISO-8859-1
XlatcharSetAlias LATIN-1 LATIN1
XlatCharSetAlias CP437 IBMPC
;XlatCharSetAlias CP850 IBMPC
XlatCharsetAlias CP850 PC-8
XlatCharSetAlias CP1252 WINDOWS
XlatCharSetAlias NORWEIG ISO646-NO
XlatCharSetAlias DUTCH ISO664-NL
XlatCharSetalias SWEDISH ISO664-SE
XlatCharSetAlias SWEDISH ISO-60
XlatCharSetAlias CP866 +7_FIDO
Xlatcharsetalias CP866 +7


Cheers, Michiel

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