Subj : your external editor test of utf-8
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Apr 21 2014 16:21:05

Hey Michiel!

 MvdV> So why did you call it cheating when I revealed that for UTF-8 I
 MvdV> use notepad as an external editor for Golded?

Sorry I forgot to respond to the above in the original reply.  The reason I call it cheating is that anyone reading a message 'created' by GoldED+ is going to get the impression that it is utf-8 capable when it obviously isn't.  If you, and others following this same idea, were to correct the tearline to indicate that an external editor is being deployed to take care of the shortcomings then that would make it more honest and save others much grief if they started using GoldED+ thinking they could read/write utf-8 fidonet messages based on your (and others) postings.

Perhaps 'cheat' is not the correct word but at the moment I cannot come up with a better word for this particular methodology.  What do you suggest instead?

Life is good,
Maurice

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