Hello Sean!
** On Thursday 23.07.20 - 18:45, Sean Dennis wrote to Martin Foster:
Yep, the original looked just fine here, as does your reply :)
That is because certain people think that Fidonet, based on 40 year
old technology, is going to suddenly and magically be able to switch
over to all of these other codepages on its own.
Programs like OpenXP do a fine job implementing new features over that
time. There is no reason *not* to try and include other things such as
IPv6 support (which it does).
My system here, using GoldEd, can handle 15 different codepages and translate them properly into CP437.
Does the translation happen automagically for incoming messages? Does
GoldEd guess the correct codepage when there is no accompanying clue with which codepage the original characters in a message were created with?
And, I assume that GoldEd generates a chars kludge based on the chars that you want people to see. If so, then yes.. much ado about nothing.
Personally, I would like to see msgid/replyid in your messages. That would "group" the messages here visually and relationally in the messagebase.
So this is much ado about nothing and can be ignored.
But it can be very *nice* to have our readers render the matching codepage and encodings. We don't have to be stuck back 40 years.
The more capabilities our readers can use and agree using between
ourselves, then this messaging hobby can be only get better.
Like you, I saw August's reply just fine though I thought dissected Tribbles would be more like . . . :D
Those are probably baby tribbles, or tribble droppings.
Cheers!
../|ug
--- OpenXP 5.0.45
* Origin: This is a test of the Emergency Tagline System (2:221/1.58)