Subj : kernel 6.1
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun Jan 01 2023 06:03 pm

Hello Maurice!

30 Dec 2022 22:09, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> would not help have full fleged utf8 when old precompiled amiga 
 BP>> software only have latin-1

 MK> Definetly not for two very good reasons; no amiga hardware and no such 
 MK> thing as latin-1.

please dont fix msged then, if anything should be changed you should in vim make valid w3.org text (HTML) :)

 BP>> if people understand why its not happend we could all use latin-1
 MK> Nope.  We have no use for things that do not exist, such as latin-1.  
 MK> Personally I vote for 7-bit ascii characters and to hell with stinkin' 
 MK> human languages.

in fidoterms latin-1 does exists, in iconv it does not

i dont have references to why amiga did it, more or less maybe filesystem was build with latin-1 in mind

 MK> A bunch of heathen bastards if you ask me.  :-)

feel free to not get an amiga emulator on linux

 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice

don't blame me then


 Regards Benny

.... too late to die young :)

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