Subj : Russian text copy pasting? or more specifically, UTF-8 copying
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Feb 09 2020 19:22:32

On 09/02/2020 4:46 a.m., Alexander Koryagin : August Abolins wrote:


 AA>> [3] open Ref/Quo, switch to RU.

 AK> It doesn't matter if Ref/Quo is in the Rus mode or Eng mode.
 AK> When you switch the language in Ref/Quo you just replace the
 AK> texts of the menu items.

Hello Alexander!

What I meant by "RU" above was switching the keyboard to RU.

Your program has "RUS" and "ENG" buttons for switching the menu
language, but that is not what I meant.  ;)


 AA>> [4] press "From clipboard".
 AA>> .. but the text changes a bit.

 AK> ??. Ref/Quo makes only a few changes when you paste the text
 AK> into it -- for instance, on the web site there are quoter marks
 AK> like << >>. Req/quo will change them to the standard form "".

I have not noticed the changes to the << >> characters, yet.  But thanks
for the heads-up.

Meanwhile, there are couple of other things your program "changes" as
soon as the quoting is applied.  :(   I'll send that info to you in email.


 AK> PS: If you use Thunderbird for Fidonet you should know its
 AK> unpleasant feature (important only if you try to send messages
 AK> with not English symbols):

In fidonet, most echos are expected to be in plain old ascii. But
utilizing the correct CHARS kludge is acceptable in some echos to aid in
implementing the correct character set for viewing.


 AK> ...If you paste (into the Thunderbird editor) a text
 AK> where even one symbol is not ASCII (for instance an exotic
 AK> quoter mark or a long dash) Thunderbird will automatically
 AK> change coding system in your message to UTF-8.

Actually, UTF-8 seems to be fine solution that supports any language.
;)   I like it.

Some fidonet editors such as (GossipEd) offer UTF-8 support, I've heard.


 AK>                                         ...It is important
 AK> for Fidonet -- in Fidonet almost nobody can read words written
 AK> in UTF-8. When you send your message with Russian letters the
 AK> Russian words will look as hieroglyphs for those whose editors
 AK> support ASCII texts only.

UTF-8 "includes" ascii.

UTF-8 seems to solve the problem of worrying about changing system
character sets or keyboards.

That is why I wondered if your fine program could/would support UTF-8,
someday(?).



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