Subj : 40 Cups of Coffee
To   : Nick Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Apr 05 2025 18:36:50

Hey Nick!

 > And it proves that you're still around and kickin'.

A little worse for wear but yes I am not dead yet.  Still gettting probed and scanned as they still haven't found the cause.

 > Does this have to do with 640k being enough memory for anyone?

Heh, heh.  I think the opposite but am unsure if he had anything to do with it.  Seems to me that about 15-ish years ago, maybe more, MS came up with a windows release where UTF-16 was the default, which of course wreaked havoc given the lack of compatibility with standard 7-bit and 8-bit character sets that everyone was using and still are.  Since MS adopted UTF-8 instead, I haven't heard anything about that particular fsck-up since.

 > I definitely wasn't serious

I am not surprised.

 > it was coming time to move on.

Probably, but I do prefer the layout I posted as opposed to the glibc's gconv-modules or 'iconv --list' and especially IANA's html page of encodings and corresponding aliases.  The posting in this echoarea is more along the line of file listings on BBSes which is vastly more humanly readable than anything else I've seen.

HTML definetly sucks.  Beats me why anyone in their right mind would subscribe to that format over plain text output, including (espcially?) UTF-8.  :::sigh:::

Life is good,
Maurice

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