Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 22:39:50

Hello Nicholas,

On Friday September 16 2016 13:27, you wrote to me:

 NB>>> Is this another adventure?

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

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

It is handled in parallel using the same infrastructure as the ASCII only list. And no, the ZC2's system does not handle UTF-8 in the sense that he can read and create UTF-8 encoded mail.

But when configured with the option "ALLOW8BIT 1" MakeNl is fully 8 bit transparent. SO it processes UTF-8 encoded segments without problems.

 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.
 NB>>> I may have to get involved with this.. :)

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

 MV>> But by all means, start lobbying..

 NB> Again, as I said to Kees, why does any or all of the current Fidonet
 NB> heirarchy have to be involved?

It is the way we do it here. It ensures that the ASCII and UTF-8 versions of the nodelist are synchronised.

 NB> The fidoweb doesn't need top-down distribution, why would any other
 NB> side projects?

It is how we do it here in Z2. It works for us.


Cheers, Michiel

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