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От : Nick Boel 1:154/700 05 апр 25 20:30:24
К : Maurice Kinal 05 апр 25 09:48:21
Тема : Re: 40 Cups of Coffee
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Hey Maurice!
On Sat, Apr 05 2025 13:36:50 -0500, you wrote:
> A little worse for wear but yes I am not dead yet. Still gettting
> probed and scanned as they still haven`t found the cause.
What are they probing and scanning for?
> Heh, heh. I think the opposite but am unsure if he had anything to
> do with it. Seems to me that about 15-ish years ago, maybe more, MS
> came up with a windows release where UTF-16 was the default, which of
> course wreaked havoc given the lack of compatibility with standard
> 7-bit and 8-bit character sets that everyone was using and still are.
> Since MS adopted UTF-8 instead, I haven`t heard anything about that
> particular fsck-up since.
It seems 15 years ago was around the time of WinXP and Win7. I`ve
even recently installed both of those in a virtual machine to check out
some old BBS software, and I don`t remember anything odd in regards to
charsets. As far as I can remember, the command prompt has always used
CP437, but there was a time I didn`t use Windows at all (nothing in
between Win 3.11 for Workgroups and Win2kPro, and then I never used ME or
Vista, either).
A quick look at Wikipedia states that Windows has been using UTF-16
since Windows 2000, and didn`t support UTF-8 in it`s API until 2019. If
that is the case, it was a thing for a lot longer than we thought..
>> I definitely wasn`t serious
> I am not surprised.
Does my new tagline sway your decision on that? ;)
> Probably, but I do prefer the layout I posted as opposed to the
> glibc`s gconv-modules or `iconv --list` and especially IANA`s html
> page of encodings and corresponding aliases. The posting in this
> echoarea is more along the line of file listings on BBSes which is
> vastly more humanly readable than anything else I`ve seen.
When is the last time you actually listed files on a BBS? If it`s
been awhile, you can check the address in my origin line. However, I`d
recommend CP437 capabilities in some capacity. I can use a UTF-8 enabled
Putty client with proper settings to telnet and it displays pretty good
(CP437 and UTF-8), though.
> HTML definetly sucks. Beats me why anyone in their right mind would
> subscribe to that format over plain text output, including
> (espcially?) UTF-8. :::sigh:::
The incessant need for fancy emojis, maybe?
Regards,
Nick
... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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