Fellow Developers,
I've been tinkering writing a Python based tosser/packer. Some things I've noticed in processing mail; not all messages contain a character set kludge flag (and I find, to my surprise, my own current BBS doesn't support it -cringe-). Though, more to the specific question: what character set does o use as a default when one is not defined?
Do I use ASCII, CP437, CP850, or something else? (I'm in the US, so gut reaction is to use CP437) But is that the right choice?
Secondly, FTS documents suggest that the character set is to applied to the body and header portions of the message, does that include the kludge lines I'm currently handling them separately as 'ascii'; which given the history o Fidonet, I chose as the more likely answer.
Looking for your thoughts.
And if a different echo is more proper, please point me in that direction an I'll continue the discuss there.
Scott
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