Subj : Vote
To   : Nil A
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Mar 23 2024 06:13:02

Hey Nil!

 NA> my latest patch to GoldED source code has done the thing

It could work for me but first you need to get utf-8 working before I'd get excighted about it.  I have a couple points that can convert utf-8 to whatever REAL 8-bit character set including koi8-{r|u}.  It doesn't scare me.

 NA> Z2:R50 folks are not ready to read any Cyrillic outside of DOS
 NA> encoding back in 90th which is CP866.

The heathen bastards!  ;-)

Это для меня китайская грамота.

 NA> The "bottle neck" is the Randy Bush's copyright on
 NA> FTS-0000000000000000001 document

I could live without it.  For sure all the binary crap *should* get the heave-ho.  As for encoding utf-8 is the way to go but I don't see it happening soon and I fully plan to exploit it as-is (fts-5003.001).  As for fts-0001.016, there are very few hubs that actually support it and haven't for a couple decades now.  The document they wish to replace it with isn't any better methinks.

Life is good,
Maurice

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