Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Oli
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 18:02:12

On 24/01/2020 2:23 a.m., Oli : August Abolins wrote:


  AA> When I look a that nodelist, the line above looks fine as:
  AA> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,Säve,Björn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V34

Hello Oli!

 O> I think whatever program you are using to view the nodelist
 O> doesn't interpret the text as UTF-8, but as ISO 8859-1, Window-
 O> 1252 or something similar. The report is correct.

Ahhh. Yes.. I was viewing it with a basic Windows editor. Thanks for correcting my oversight.  Apparently, there are still many mysteries in char encoding to me.  :(


 O> But there shouldn't be any invalid characters in the nodelist.
 O> They should be translated or stripped. A UTF-8 nodelist that is
 O> not a valid UTF-8 file is a bit pointless.

So..  why not have "the process gods" do the correction, and share the
corrected version to the originator?



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