= Сообщение: 2966 из 12518 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 13 Oct 15 18:25:46 Кому : Björn Felten 13 Oct 15 18:25:46 Тема : UTF-8 nodelist stats FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+561d32dd На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+561d2c7e = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Björn,
On Tuesday October 13 2015 18:08, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> Edlin does not support it either. Your point?
BF> I don't think his Amiga supports good old EDLIN.
There will probably have been an equivalent?
BF> Around circa 1991-92 we in Sweden had a war going on. It was BF> between PC-8 (95%) of the systems and ISO-Latin (5%).
Then you were way ahead of us in The Netherlands, Fido was still 100% ASCII only back then. Despite the fact that we do use some non-ASII characters in out writings. There are of course the accents and tremas, but there is also the concatenated 'ij' and the Dutch Florin sign 'ƒ'. We had to revert to tricks like writing 'e1n' instead of 'één' to make the distintion in pronunciation between 'een' and 'één'.
BF> We decided that PC-8 would be the norm. The Amiga sysops wrote BF> scripts and what not, converting their characters to the standard BF> (PC-8).
It wasn't until 1997 or so that non ASCII characters were "tolerated" by some moderators. There was no discussion about the character set to use. It was the original IBM set which we now know as CP437..
BF> But then at least two Swedish sysops sent their own FTN proposals BF> making it possible to translate to and fro between PC-8 and ISO-Latin.
You guys really paved the way... ;-)
BF> At least one of the Swedish proposals made it all the way. Now BF> almost no system (but Benny's) have problems converting between PC-8 BF> and ISO-Latin.
