Subj : Re: UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 13:27:16

Hello Michiel,

On 16 Sep 16 17:35, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Is this another adventure?

 MV> Yes, sort of. The dailyutf has been running now for some two years
 MV> IIRC. It runs in parallel with the ASCII only daily nodelist.

I didn't know it was distributed by the Z2C. Does his system even handle UTF-8?

 NB>> I could probably make the 7th and 8th lines found with well
 NB>> formed UTF-8 sequences, just from the real spelling of my name. I
 NB>> may have to get involved with this.. :)

 MV> I'd love to see that, but as Kees already pointed out, that would be a
 MV>  challenge. You'd have to convince the nodelist clarks in Z1, at least
 MV> your RC and ZC, that they have to set up a second run of makenl. This
 MV> will be more difficult than in Z2 where English is not the dominant
 MV> language and there are many sysops whose names and location can not be
 MV> spelled properly with ASCII only.

 MV> But by all means, start lobbying..

Again, as I said to Kees, why does any or all of the current Fidonet heirarchy have to be involved? The fidoweb doesn't need top-down distribution, why would any other side projects?

Regards,
Nick

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