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Re: Character encoding IBM437

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:10:52 +0300
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On May 31, 2005, at 00:42, Jorden Verwer wrote:

> Could the IBM437 character encoding be added to the validator? I'm 
> actually
> quite surprised that it's not supported, because codepage 437 is the 
> text
> mode default on PCs even today...

Why would it be appropriate to use such legacy encoding on the public 
network instead of UTF-8?

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:10:56 UTC

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