Subj : Re^3: Nomination
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Feb 28 2025 08:54 pm

Hey Tim!

 > there may be all thos borders and ASCII art that are sometimes also
 > used

But those are *NEVER* ASCII.  ASCII is *ALWAYS* 7-bit characters while line/box drawing characters are 8-bit which *SHOULD* exclude them if CHARS are set to ASCII.  The penguins below are true ASCII art but the Ænglisc characters require UTF-8.  CP437 and other IBM character sets just can't cut it whcn it comes to supporting actual languages, including many Latin based ones.

As for IBMPC, I think you're sucking slough water.  I seriously doubt IBM itself would openly support it as a valid character set.  Last time I checked IANA doesn't.

Life is good,
Maurice

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