Subj : oh those russians
To   : Konstantin Kuzov
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 28 2017 01:40:03

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Hey Konstantin!

 KK> especially in fidonet where dominating codepage is CP866

Which completely ignores most Russian users which are more than likely using CP1251.  The above quote assumes that Russian sysops are content keeping fidonet within a small group of users of Russian abandonware rather than open it up to the larger group of actual Russian users.  Also, like everywhere else in the world, utf-8 is the majority of systems on the internet which will likely spread to the majority of users ... eventually.  One could easily argue that universal adoption of utf-8 text messaging only makes economic sense since the exact same capable device could be used anywhere by anyone no matter what their native language(s) happen to be.

By the way, this tagline is 8 bit Russian except NOT CP866 but instead CP1251 which is the most likely to happen in real usuage, and as a matter of fact I have witnessed it happen on a Russian website in the past.  It should say the same as the 8 bit Greek (CP737) tagline except in Russian.

Life is good,
Maurice

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