Subj : Re: when a practice does it better.
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Thu Feb 27 2025 03:42 pm
//Hello Michiel,//
on *27.02.2025* at *13:09:16* You wrote in Area *FTSC_PUBLIC*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"when a practice does it better."*.
TS>> Because you say so?
MvdV> No because FTS-5003 says so and explains why.
When FTS-5003 was written, people where expecting an alive software culture where it is easy to adopt such changes. However, that didnt happen.
Start thinking: Since FTS-5003 itself suggests that systems implementing the standard should process IBMPC as CP437, the standard itself says that using IBMPC for outgoing messages is just the same as using CP437 minus compatibility.
Since we talk charsets standards: nearly half of what was written in any of the older charset standards in the past was plain nonsense from todays perspective. Much of it was always broken. Think of those funny ideas about character sizes. So why think the standard where everybody just stopped working is so much better?
Regards,
Tim
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