Hello Michiel!

** On Tuesday 21.07.20 - 17:41, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Mauro Veiga:

... * * * <- Tribbles t t t <- dissected tribbles

MvdV> ^ ^ ^
MvdV> When posting messages without a CHRS kludge, one can not expect
MvdV> non-ASCII characters to be correctly displayed on the screens of the
MvdV> receivers.

Testing reply with copy from original:

"... * * * <- Tribbles ð ð ð <- dissected tribbles"

This looked ok in OXP assuming CP437, and looks ok going out.


../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: This is a test of the Emergency Tagline System (2:221/1.58)

Hello August!

*** Wednesday 22.07.20 at 19:10, August Abolins wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

... * * * <- Tribbles t t t <- dissected tribbles

MvdV> ^ ^ ^
MvdV> When posting messages without a CHRS kludge, one can not expect
MvdV> non-ASCII characters to be correctly displayed on the screens of the MvdV> receivers.

Testing reply with copy from original:

"... * * * <- Tribbles ð ð ð <- dissected tribbles"

This looked ok in OXP assuming CP437, and looks ok going out.

Yep, the original looked just fine here, as does your reply :)

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

Hello August Abolins!

22 Jul 20 19:10:00, August Abolins wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

MvdV>> When posting messages without a CHRS kludge, one can not expect
MvdV>> non-ASCII characters to be correctly displayed on the screens of the
MvdV>> receivers.

Testing reply with copy from original:

"... * * * <- Tribbles ≡ ≡ ≡ <- dissected tribbles"

This looked ok in OXP assuming CP437, and looks ok going out.

So it looks OK to you when assuming CP437 is the default. What I see are three characters consisting of three stacked dashes. Looks OK to me too. But /is/ it OK? I don't know, I do not know what a tribble is or what it is supposed to look like, let alone a dissected trible.

However... the author of the original message says it is supposed to be a single dash and that is how it looks like when assuming CP850.

Your assumption that CP437 is the default turns out to be wrong in this case.



Michiel


--- goAtEd-windows/386 1.0.5-154-a1826692
* Origin: (2:280/5555)

Quoting August Abolins to Martin Foster <=-

chcp

Active code page: 437

ð

'ð' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\chcp 850
Active code page: 850

-

'-' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

This tells me, that the original poster didn't get (or see) the
tribble joke properly! LOL

LOL!
The original post in Bluewave with CP437:

http://pics.rsh.ru/img/screenshot494_mawsuehd.png

Looks like a dissected tribe. But single dash also seem, maybe a
bad legist work. :-DD

Star Trek also is culture. :-)

! Origin: This is a test of the Emergency Tagline System (2:221/1.58)

:-D


... * <- Tribble */ \* <- Tribbles swordfighting
* Origin: The File Bank BBS! (3:640/1321)

Ola August!

** 23.07.20 - 18:01, August Abolins wrote to Mauro Veiga:

Hello Mauro!

Looks like a dissected tribe. But single dash also seem, maybe a
bad legist work. :-DD

OK... Then the ð char looks fine for both of us viewing with readers that default to CP437. But I also recall that your original message arrived
into the echo *without* the CP437 kludge - and thus the alt-240 char translated to something else for other people.

The message I am replying to also lacks the CHARS kludge, btw.

Yes, i know that.


[]'s

--- OpenXP 5.0.42
* Origin: Point da Coruja - Brasil * (4:801/194.1)

Hello Mauro,

On Friday July 24 2020 09:20, you wrote to August Abolins:

@MSGID: 4:801/194.1@fidonet e6b88ad6
@REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e6b57c86
@PID: OpenXP/5.0.42 (Win32)
@CHRS: IBMPC 2

Now you have a CHRS kludge but IBMPC is obsolete. It used the mean the original IBM PC character set, later known as CP437, but it evolved to mean ANY IBM Code page.

See http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

Install the latest vesrion of OpenXP, it allows for configuring CP437. Ask August, he already did it.


Cheers, Michiel

--- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
* Origin: ZC1 certified techno-dick (2:280/5555)

Hello Michiel!

*** Friday 24.07.20 at 23:19, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Mauro Veiga:

Now you have a CHRS kludge but IBMPC is obsolete. It used the mean
the original IBM PC character set, later known as CP437, but it
evolved to mean ANY IBM Code page.

See http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5003.001

Install the latest vesrion of OpenXP, it allows for configuring
CP437. Ask August, he already did it.

I'm using the latest version - 5.0.42.

MvdV> August uses 5.0.45...

Yeah, so do I but 5.0.45 is not the current release version, 5.0.42 is. 5.0.45 is a public development build which contains the Win32 executable
only and is available from the project page on SourceForge.

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

Hello Tommi!

*** Saturday 25.07.20 at 09:04, tommi # rbb.fidonet.fi wrote to Mauro Veiga:

@PID: OpenXP/5.0.42 (Win32)

Install the latest vesrion of OpenXP, it allows for configuring CP437.
Ask August, he already did it.

I'm using the latest version - 5.0.42.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/

5.0.45 :)

Yep, see my previous post :)

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

Ola August!

** 26.07.20 - 19:39, August Abolins wrote to Mauro Veiga:

Hello Mauro!

** On Sunday 26.07.20 - 09:09, Mauro Veiga wrote to Martin Foster:

You need to get 'openxp_5.0.45_win32_exe.zip' from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/files/Service/

Done.

MAILER: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32) / OpenXP 5.0.45

Woohoo! To celebrate, here is a dissected trible: ð

LOL!

Interesting. On Bluewave reading a qwk package from BBS show the three
lines, but here show a hyphen or minus character. Codepages are a very
crazy thing. But funny. %-D


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--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: Point da Coruja - Brasil * (4:801/194.1)