Subj : all for one
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 20:18:34

 On 2019 Aug 30 20:47:46, you wrote to me:

 ml>> they don't appear in this editor properly but i hope they will in the
 ml>> final posted reply

 MK> Given you're replying with an editor with "CHRS: CP437 2" set,

that is a flaw that has been corrected IIUC... i should update my system to get 
the latest bleeding edge code... i'm ~12 days behind right now...

 MK> which is an 8-bit character encoding and the original characters were
 MK> 32-bit, then the answer is that they are no longer what they were
 MK> intended to be.

funny thing is they worked previously in both reading and writing but code 
changes...

 MK> I see them both as 0xa8 in your quote which in CP437-speak is the
 MK> upside down question mark.

yup... that's what i saw in the editor...

 MK> There are no emoticons in CP437 so the original characters cannot be
 MK> converted to CP437 ... or any other 8-bit IBM/MS character sets that I
 MK> am aware of.

true... to a point... they can be converted but not to a single glyph...

 MK> From my perspective the true quote test will come from Nancy since she
 MK> has a real text editor (emacs) that doesn't mess with characters
 MK> despite the fact she also lacks suitable fonts to view them.  So
 MK> unless her offline host has the "loses an eye" bug everything should
 MK> be okee-dokee.

this also depends on which system she quotes from... i know that she visits 
like 4 or 5 BBS systems most every day...

)\/(ark

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set 
them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
.... Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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