Subj : A Brand New Look!
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun Jun 10 2018 23:48:34

Hello Richard!

10 Jun 2018 20:38, Richard Menedetter wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> However a kludge is most often wrong or poorly identified such as
 MK>> LATIN-1.

+1

 RM> I agree that having widely available UTF-8 support in Fidonet software 
 RM> would be very nice.

we live with old 8bit standards from commodore 64 still, if computers was 32bit 
at the first ones, we would not need any kind of stupid encoding standards :)

 RM> Sadly that is not the case.

+1

 RM> Most software used is incapable of displaying UTF-8 characters 
 RM> correctly.

so atleast show it as 7bit would not be a fail

 RM> (Mostly due to the software being written before UTF-8 was 
 RM> standardized.)

fidonet software could indeed be writed to use html, yark ?, i think not if we 
all rethink why

 RM> And the kludge
 RM> @CHRS: LATIN-1 2
 RM> is NOT poorly identified, it is clearly stated that this character set 
 RM> is to be used:
 RM> "ISO 8859-1 (Western European)"

or keep what is supported in very long time


 Regards Benny

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