Subj : conversion to cp866
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Mar 17 2024 09:28:00

Hello Maurice Kinal!

 MK> Not surprising given that CP437 doesn't support CP866
 MK> encoding.  The only encoding that properly supports
 MK> differing languages is utf8.  CP437 falls short of
 MK> supporting anything other than the so-call higher ascii,
 MK> which of course is bogus.  All ascii are 7-bit characters
 MK> and is well supported by most encodings in the range of
 MK> 0x00 to 0x7f.  Anything above that isn't ascii, higher or
 MK> otherwise.

So.. you're implying that utf8 should be baked into fidonet?

A vast majority of retro systems and software would still be  
limited to the 7-bit chars and high-ascii, so.. what's the  
urgency for utf8?

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