Subj : Character codes
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Sep 09 2016 17:32:44


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Hello Tony,

On Friday September 09 2016 18:51, you wrote to me:

 TL> @MSGID: 6196.fido-fn_sysop@3:633/410 1c37d8ad
 TL> @REPLY: 2:280/5555 57d27096
 TL> @TZUTC: 1000
 TL> @TID: SBBSecho 2.27-Linux r1.261 Dec 26 2015 GCC 4.8.2

No CHRS kludge...

 TL> ЛП-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Matt Bedynek <=-

     ^^^

H‚ what's that? Oh wait it is the sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF. That is the UTF-8
sequence for
the BOM or Byte Order Mark.

An obsolete, depricated way of signalling that the text is encoded in UTF-8.

But then..
 TL> ... The worst thing about censorship is лллллллллл.
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^

This is not encoded in UTF-8. It is CP437, CP850, CP866 or any other CPxxx
encoding that has the block characters.

So you have no CHRS kludge to signal the encoding, use an ancient signalling
method for UTF-8, but actually endode in CPxxx.

You have some tuning to do on your system. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel


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