Subj : Re: how can something that feels so right be so wrong?
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Konstantin Kuzov
Date : Tue Feb 28 2017 16:08:30

Greetings, Maurice!

KK>> If presented kludge doesn't match actual used codepage then
KK>> writer of that message hasn't configured his editor right.
MK> Is this one any better?  It makes absolutely no difference here other
MK> than this time the kludge and the encoding match ...

Yes, it is looking completely fine:

MK> .. У меня в штанах белка

You can compare this yourself:
https://fido.g0x.ru/?area://UTF-8?msgid=1:153/7001+58b4f6c2

With this:
https://fido.g0x.ru/?area://UTF-8?msgid=1:153/7001+58b4d4f3

MK> minus the silly level thingy (^ACHRS: <identifier> <level>) which
MK> is '2' in this case.

Legacy level thing is there just for compatibility reasons. Modern editors could just ignore all trailing information after codepage.

BTW, Michael's script which posts to this echo goes further. It appends space after the level for whatever reason.

MK> For the record my editor still ignores the CHRS kludge and only does
MK> ascii and utf-8.  No kludge is required for either to work.  What for?

I had written about this in my previous messages, using only utf-8 and pretending that other codepages doesn't exist isn't a solution to anything. You can do this only because you are mainly using ascii and read ascii messages.

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