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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.5 to Tim Schattkowsky on Sun Jan 16 21:43:09 2022
    It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.

    Carlos

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  • From Tim Schattkowsky@2:240/1120.29 to Carlos Navarro on Sun Jan 16 23:09:31 2022
    //Hello Carlos,//

    on *16.01.22* at *20:43:09* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*
    to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"CP850"*.

    It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.

    Isn't that just Latin-1 ?

    Regards,
    Tim
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    * Origin: Original WinPoint Origin! (2:240/1120.29)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234 to Tim Schattkowsky on Tue Jan 18 09:54:33 2022
    16 Jan 2022 23:09, you wrote to me:

    It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.

    Isn't that just Latin-1 ?

    - LATIN-1 in Fido is ISO 8859-1
    - CP850 is Code page 850 (also known as DOS Latin 1)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

    See FTS-5003, 4. Known character set identifiers http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

    In Spanish echos you can find messages in CP437, LATIN-1, CP850 and UTF-8.
    I think that Brazilian/Portuguese also use CP850 a lot.

    GoldEd+ in Windows uses CP850 by default (though you can configure it to convert to/from other encodings)

    This message is in CP850. Here's an example:
    ¨Qu‚ cige¤a vol˘ aŁn m s ahĄ?

    Carlos

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  • From Tim Schattkowsky@2:240/1120.29 to Carlos Navarro on Tue Jan 18 11:37:04 2022
    //Hello Carlos,//

    on *18.01.22* at *8:54:33* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*
    to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"CP850"*.

    16 Jan 2022 23:09, you wrote to me:

    It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.

    Isn't that just Latin-1 ?

    - LATIN-1 in Fido is ISO 8859-1
    - CP850 is Code page 850 (also known as DOS Latin 1)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

    See FTS-5003, 4. Known character set identifiers http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

    In Spanish echos you can find messages in CP437, LATIN-1, CP850 and
    UTF-8. I think that Brazilian/Portuguese also use CP850 a lot.

    GoldEd+ in Windows uses CP850 by default (though you can configure it to convert to/from other encodings)

    This message is in CP850. Here's an example: ¨Qu‚ cige¤a vol˘ aŁn m s ahĄ?

    Ok, will add it. You have to test ;)

    Regards,
    Tim
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    * Origin: Original WinPoint Origin! (2:240/1120.29)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.5 to Tim Schattkowsky on Tue Jan 18 18:49:58 2022
    Ok, will add it. You have to test ;)

    Of course!

    Carlos

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  • From Tim Schattkowsky@2:240/1120.29 to Carlos Navarro on Thu Jan 20 16:44:51 2022
    //Hello Carlos,//

    on *18.01.22* at *8:54:33* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*
    to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"CP850"*.

    It would be nice if CP850 was also supported.
    Isn't that just Latin-1 ?

    - LATIN-1 in Fido is ISO 8859-1
    - CP850 is Code page 850 (also known as DOS Latin 1)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

    As it turned out, I was back in the days thinking that CP850 equals ISO 8859-1 which causes existing WP-versions to handle CP850 as Latin-1 internally. Seems to work now correctly(starting with Version 394).

    Regards,
    Tim
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