Subj : your external editor test of utf-8
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Apr 19 2014 01:10:54

Hello Maurice,

On Friday April 18 2014 16:06, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

  WvV>> Do they still look ok on your end?

 MK> According to a method I occasionally use that ignores FTN kludges etc.

So please enlighten us about this method. Do you also use an external editor. I recall that you once used nano as external editor.

And what do you use normally?

 MK> the result shows here as "text/plain; charset=utf-8" and contains a
 MK> BOM that you quoted from Michiel.  Also when viewing it all the
 MK> characters look good.  However I have to wonder how your "CHRS: CP437
 MK> 2" is going to affect apps that actually take the CHRS kludge
 MK> seriously.  ;-)

It will mess up things of course. It is obviously one of the things that Wilfred still has to fix.

 MK> I know of at least one web site that posts Fidonet messages that will
 MK> grunge your message since utf-8 characters are NOT cp437.

Which one is that?


Cheers, Michiel

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