Subj : BBS Promotion
To   : mark lewis
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Fri Feb 10 2017 07:32 am

Hello mark,

On Fri Feb 10 2017 06:03:54, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> TimEd is probably trying to convert the UTF-8 Russian characters
 NB>> to IBMPC, which won't happen.

 ml> FWIW: there is no ""conversion""... it is simply displaying the glyphs
 ml> represented by those raw bytes in their CP437 codepage positions...
 ml> CP437 and other old-school codepage characters are only one byte
 ml> wide... any ""conversion"" might come from translating between single
 ml> byte codepages where the character glyph is transliterated from one
 ml> position in the first codepage to another position in the second
 ml> codepage where its glyph is stored... in that case, the raw byte
 ml> changes because the position in the codepage changed and the byte is
 ml> the position...

You say potato, etc..

Fact of the matter is CP437/IBMPC will not display Russian characters properly, 
whether they're UTF-8 or not. The only somewhat possible way for him to read it 
properly would be to change his default encoding to CP866 or KOI8-R, and even 
then there is no guarantee that the translation from UTF-8 will work as 
expected.

Regards,
Nick

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