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Skriven 2013-02-24 12:55:06 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
Ärende: LOL!
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Hello mark,

On Wednesday February 20 2013 13:58, you wrote to me:

 KE>>>    But we are now completely out of sync with character
 KE>>> translations, as your o "umlaut" show up here as two vertical
 KE>>> bars "||" a variation I have not jet come accross yet. And as
 KE>>> you have again changed to a not supported charset,

 MvdV>>> Yes, it is UTF-8.

 ml>> two pipes are UTF-8??

 MvdV>> That is not what I wrote. I wrote that the character encoding
 MvdV>> scheme I uses for the o unlaut was UTF-8.

 ml> sorry, that is not what you wrote... it is still up there 4 or 5 lines
 ml> above... he said that the two characters he used to see showed up in
 ml> that message as two vertical pipes... you responded that they were
 ml> UTF-8 which is why i asked my question...

He wrote

 KE>>> And as you have again changed to a not supported charset,

And I worte:

 MvdV>>> Yes, it is UTF-8.

QED.

 ml> speaking of which, if the whole problem is *display*, why are the
 ml> display characters being retransmitted instead of remaining local only
 ml> for display??

Because maintaining the original encoding would severely limit the number of
characters that can be used by the replier. It would limit him to what his
native character set and that of the sender have in common. It gets even worse
when a third party with a different native character set mixes in. Then the
usable character set would get even smaller. Not practical.

 KE>>>  you will probably get your next aswer encoded in EBCDIC.

 MvdV>>> I can handle that. .. I think...

 ml>> there's a translation table for EBCDIC? interesting...

 MvdV>> Why ask me? It is Kees that wants to encode in EBCDIC, not me.
 MvdV>> It is him that needs the table.

 ml> i asked you because you said you could handle it... you thought...

I thought that I could make or find a translation table when the need arose...

 ml> i wanted to know if you had a transliteration table for EBCDIC...

No, I don't have it. No need. Yet..


Cheers, Michiel

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