Subj : UTF-8 for Region 80
To   : Flavio Bessa
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Nov 24 2016 13:28:25

Hello Flavio,

On Thursday November 24 2016 09:43, you wrote to All:

 FB>         I would like to start a trial of UTF-8 implementation for R80
 FB> with my system.

Great!

 FB>         What would be the necessary steps? How can we receive and
 FB> process the UTF-8 nodelists?

1) Get a copy of the latest version of MakeNl. The latest version is 3.4.6

2) Get an UTF capable text editor. My favorite is de windows version of Vi. But Notepad will do as well.

3) Getting copies of some character conversion utilities like iconv is helpull but not a requirement. A serial editor like sed is also helpful.

 FB>         My main board runs Mystic, but I can setup an alternate system
 FB> for the sake of the testing...

Mystic is poor in supporting anything other than pure ASCII. But to produce a UTF-8 nodelist segment you do not need a BBS.


Cheers, Michiel

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