Subj : an emoji suggestion/solution for Tg->Fido
To   : August Abolins
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Tue Feb 14 2023 18:35:54

12 Feb 2023 17:11, you wrote to me:

 CN>> How about, instead of that, just display everything from
 CN>> TG as UTF-8?

 AA> How many BBS message systems even support UTF-8 today?

Synchronet and MBSE, I was told. It is planned for BBBS too. Not sure about Mystic.

As for FTN editors/packages, several have full UTF-8 support, others have some limitations...

 AA> It would need to be managed on an echo by echo basis that
 AA> supports UTF-8, I guess.  On second thought I wouldn't
 AA> necessarily want to see primarily ascii-based message areas
 AA> filled with untranslated U+HHHHH codes littering a message

Well, on second thoughts I think that what you suggest may be fine for Fido.
Some usual emojis could be transliterated (to :-) :-D X-D etc.), and those that are not currently supported, to something like [U+1F4A9]. At least we could find out what the user meant ;-) Better than lots of confusing quotation marks...

What I don't like is transliteration of normal, non-English text characters (those not included in ASCII<127, like accented vocals, umlauts, etc.)

Carlos

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