Subj : UTF-8 question
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Dec 31 2019 18:03:00

Hello Martin!

** 31.12.19 - 09:18, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I think we had a little chat about UTF-8 before (can't remember),
 AA>> but why is it that OXP doesn't display utf-8 chars all that well?

 MF>Yes we did and the thread was started by your good self on 4th April
 MF>2019 entitled "oxp: UTF-8". Some very interesting stuff came out of
 MF>that thread and in particular, the developers comments which I posted
 MF>in a message dated 5th April 2019.

Thank you for the reminder.  I reviewed those messages.

Being a DOS program, oxp's UTF-8 results are highly dependent on the Font  
set in use and the limits of that font's support.  I thought Lucinda  
Console font would solve all the problems, but it does not.

In other news, I am still baffled how oxp decides to use IBM437 and when  
to use UTF-8, or even when it just uses US-ASCII for outgoing messages.

Are key chars triggering the selection?


  ../|ug

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