Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Chris Jacobs
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 11:02 pm

Hello Chris,

On Saturday February 25 2023 21:34, you wrote to me:

CJ>> Wanneer wordt die legacy umlaut eindelijk eens verwijderd?

MvV>> Why do you call it "legacy? It is just wrongly encoded. The
MvV>> enconding is Latin-1 while it should be UTF-8.

CJ> I call the latin-number codepages and the DOS codepages and the
CJ> Windows codepages all legacy, regardles if they are wrongly encoded or
CJ> not.

OK, fair enough. But be aware that according to the CHRS kludge your message is encoded in a legacy as well...

MvV>> Your message was encoded in CP437. That does not work well for
MvV>> quoting UTF-8 text...

CJ> I see. That is a Vertrauen BBS thing.

AKAIK Synchronet BBS is capable of doing UTF-8. So I would expect it to reply in UTF-8 when quote replying to a UTF-8 encoded message.


Cheers, Michiel

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