Subj : UTF-8 and RTL/BTT/column oriented text
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Sat Nov 08 2003 02:11 pm

Hello Benny!

08 Nov 03 02:30, you wrote to Goran Eriksson:

 GE>> 5. How do you think things should be done in these respects in
 GE>> FidoNet messages containing UTF-8 encoded text?

 BP> i will hope UTF (unicode) will get translated to LATIN-1 in the
 BP> software that imports it to ftn network, and the software that export
 BP> from ftn could translate to UTF (unicode), transperant ? :-)

Indeed, LATIN-1 should be the widely used charset in Fidonet.. But it's too 
late now..

I don't use LATIN-1 because many people don't do charset translation properly.. 
So I just send in CP850.

Regards,
Bo

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