Subj : [--- No BBS ---]
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Winston Smith
Date : Mon Mar 24 2003 04:21 am

-> Well there also miss, that they are setting charset information. I us
-> synchronet for posting my posts, but i doesn't help then you need to
-> use charecters in the high end of the ASCII table, and the BBS
-> system doesn't support it.
->
-> Wildcat! have the samme miss :(

I believe that in order to post international characters or IBM graphics
into a message base, the Sysop has to "turn on" the "IBM ANSI" allowed
flag in the message base.  This was done in the "BBS ADS" message base.
There was a big stink about this a while back when Bjorn Felton asked
this to be done in the FidoNews message base so that he could write his
name with an umlaut.  Some ancient, WordStar-like mail readers use
high-bit characters for formatting controls.  Most Sysops did not wish
to take the risk that someone using CP/M would corrupt their message
base, although the chance is pretty slight these days....  These days it
is turned off to keep ANSI artists from splattering message areas with
pictures using IBM graphics, but that is also getting rarer and rarer.
I bet if you ask the Sysop to turn IBM ANSI on in message areas that you
post in or that get international messages that he or she will do so.
It never hurts to ask....

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