Subj : your external editor test of utf-8
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Apr 25 2014 15:13:12

Hey Michiel!

 MvdV> But how is my Fidonet message viewer going to know?

Beats me.  I already posted here how mine 'knows'.  It can tell the difference except cannot identify the 8-bit encodings other than to 'know' that they are either iso or non-iso.  Those are REALLY the ones that need a CHRS kludge not that they will ever get that right given all the abandonware in fidonet.  However given this is the UTF-8 echo then it shouldn't be an issue is it?

 MvdV> But you are not on an island

I live on an island.  They call it Vancouver Island.  :-)

 MvdV> you are part of a network that is about exchanging messages.

Understood.  I am probably one of the most compatible - if indeed not *thee* most compatible - fidonet system in the world today.  With CHRS or without.  It makes no difference.

Life is good,
Maurice

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