Subj : Re: Is Synchronet UTF8 Ready?
To   : Konstantin Kuzov
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 28 2017 19:51:33

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Hey Konstantin!

 KK> Extremely Naive Charset Analyser v1.18:
 KK> [+] Charset: NOT DETECTED >_<

 KK> Extremely Naive Charset Analyser GIT:
 KK>  [+] Charset: UTF-8

I've never heard of this before now but it looks like the git version is on the right track.  As for the message I am replying to (MSGID: 2:5019/40.1 58b5732e) when cat'ted to file-5.30 (the most recent version) reports; "/dev/stdin: UTF-8 Unicode text".  It uses the magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic.  Older versions made the same observations about UTF-8 text messages and I never once saw it fail ... unless of course it actually wasn't a UTF-8 text message and then it either reported, "data", in the case of a raw pkt or "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text" in the case of your message converted to CP866 and piped to file-5.30.  Older versions of file often 'guessed' it wrong as ISO-8859-1 text.

 KK> What is right? All fidonet users must be using UTF-8 and only
 KK> UTF-8?

Given some more time it won't matter.  I question that it already doesn't matter.  I know for a fact that here at 1:153/7001 it doesn't matter and the the correct way is to make everything UTF-8 which eventually will be the way it will all be if indeed it already isn't.  As for the CP437 Fidonet sysops who used to dominate far more than the CP866 Russian sysops do today, they pretty well much have either died off or have slipped off to obscurity haolding onto their abandonware with a death-like grip.  DOS-think is at best just an oddity in Fidonet and seems to have temporarily found a home in Russia.

It is doomed.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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