Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Mar 15 2025 16:35:52

Hello Rob,

On Friday March 14 2025 20:47, you wrote to Sergey Dorofeev:

 RS> I wasn't aware of this. But examing SBBSecho closer, I do see that if
 RS> a sysop placed CP437 chars in their origin line,

How do you know it is CP437? Detecting that it is NOT UTF-8 is relatively easy, but then detecting what 8 bit encoding it actually is, almost requires passing the Turing test. It could be CP850 which differs only in a few places from CP437. Or CP866 or CP1251...

 RS> they'd always be included as-is without any translation. I'll fix
 RS> that.

Great!


Cheers, Michiel

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