Subj : appearances are decieving
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sun Jun 10 2018 23:13:52

Hi Maurice!

10 Jun 2018 19:20, from Maurice Kinal -> Richard Menedetter:

 MK> Anyhow I see the your quote of line 2 which I converted to latin1
 MK> before packing confirms the your editor's LATIN-1 kludge is more than
 MK> likely ISO-8859-1

I already told you at least 3 times, and I quoted the FTS that describes that
the LATIN-1 charset kludge refers to the ISO 8859-1 character set.

BTW, as you do not use the CHRS Kludge I had to manually set it to LATIN-1
decoding.
I have configured my editor to assume CP850 (DOS Latin1) charset, as that is
what some ancient german pointsoftware uses.
Most other messages either have a correct CHRS kludge, or not use any
characters above 127 (ASCII).

 MK> Obviously a buggy version of so-clled LATIN-1.  No?

Fix the bug in your editor and submit a patch!

> UTF-8 is the only universal encoding.

Yes ... but again ... if people cannot read what you write, then it is not
really helpful to communicate.
For the languages I speak English (ASCII), German (ISO 8859-1 or ASCII if you
do not use Umlauts) and Hungarian (ISO 8859-2 or ISO 8859-1 if you do not use
long umlauts) i do not need UTF-8.

It is the same with Esperanto ... a very nice idea, but it is not really
helpful if you try to talk Esperanto to only English speaking people.

BTW Golded has a Copyright message of 1990.

UTF-8 (the current standard)
    ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Annex D (2000)

The older definition:
    ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 Amendment 2 / Annex R (1996)

So Golded was written before UTF-8 came out.
There were some Unicode variants before ... but they were used very seldom.

CU, Ricsi

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