Subj : Re: utf-8 support
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Apr 05 2019 06:48 pm

-=> On 04-04-19 18:43, Nil Alexandrov wrote to August Abolins <=-

 NA> http://utf8everywhere.org

Makes a good argument for UTF-8.  Besides, all my Linux machines use UTF-8 by
default.

 NA> The fact that you don't care about charsets and encodings is that all
 NA> software developers just started using Unicode/utf8 everywhere since
 NA> about 2000.

 NA> Also, as an English native speaker you don't read non-Latin alphabet
 NA> text, except those fancy accents present in French which is well
 NA> supported within 8-bit encoding. The rest of the world was suffering
 NA> from multiple encodings until the Unicode standard took place.

These days, UTF-8 should be the standard for message transmission.  We _are_ an
international network, and we should use the best international support we can.
 The question for Fidonet, of course, is ensuring legacy software will still
work - BBSs, tossers, mailers, readers, terminal apps, etc.


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