Subj : appearances are decieving
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Tue Jun 12 2018 14:28:32

Hi Maurice!

10 Jun 2018 22:14, from Maurice Kinal -> Richard Menedetter:

 MK> I avoid 8 bit encodings as a rule since they cause too much grief ...
 MK> as you are so kindly demonstrating.  ;-)

I had no grief whatsoever.
But I also do not have the need to send characters of languages that I do not 
speak.

 MK> All I know for sure about golded, as well as msged, is that it (they)
 MK> can display utf-8 characters but screws them up when quoting them
 MK> back.

The problem seems that the way it was coded heavily relies on 8 bit value 
replacement ...
Some people tried to add UTF-8 support, but they gave up.

CU, Ricsi

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