On 2017 Jan 25 11:07:12, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    FB>>> I have been using Aftershock for a while now and noticed that it is   
    FB>>> using CP866. Is there a way to change the code page to 437 or even   
    FB>>> 850?   
      
    BP>> it makes no sense aslong you not using chars outside of what is   
    BP>> inside of that codepage   
      
    BP>> if there would make more sense if the app would select best charset   
    BP>> based on what chars is used, eq NOT make it user selected   
      
    FB> Well, in my case my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese, so when I   
    FB> write messages on it I have to forfeit the accents, otherwise the   
    FB> message gets a little messy :)   
      
   i believe benny's point is that the character set used should default to the   
   user's locale and take into account the characters used... if your system's   
   locale is set to say   
      
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8   
      
   then you would only be able to use those characters available... if you are   
   set to pt_BR.UTF-8, then you can use those characters... it actually makes   
   more sense to use the system's default locale and go from there rather than   
   letting the user choose something that they may not even be able to use   
   because of missing characters in their selected character set that can't even   
   be displayed by the system because they don't exist in the system's default   
   character set...   
      
   FWIW: as time goes on, i do actually see fidonet being dragged into the modern   
   world to use UTF-8 pages... generaly conversations can still easily be done   
   with the standard 7-bit ASCII characters as well as locale specific characters   
   if and when they are truly needed...   
      
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