Subj : appearances are decieving
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Jun 12 2018 13:22:34

Hallo Richard!

 RM> But I also do not have the need to send characters of languages
 RM> that I do not speak.

I can relate especially considering that I haven't ever mastered the language I 
speak, nevermind ones that I don't.  Having said that I can see where utf-8 
supported echoareas might improve the current situation in Fidonet.  It is 
worth a shot ... maybe.

 RM> Some people tried to add UTF-8 support, but they gave up.

I don't blame them.  For my part I just use an already capable editor (vim in 
my case but there are many others) and took it from there.  One thing I've 
noticed is that it doesn't matter if a kludge is provided or not.  Both golded 
and msged will screw them up with or without a CHRS kludge.  It is a total 
waste of bytes and probably only encourages the FTSC powers that be to write 
further jibberish they call "standards".  :::evil grin:::

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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