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   Hello Vitaliy,   
      
   On Sunday March 03 2024 16:31, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>> Perhaps the best strategy is to have Golded alway use UTF-8   
    MvdV>> internally. Almost everyone else does these days...   
      
    VA> That would be perfect. It only takes huge amount of effort. Especially   
    VA> with keeping code backward compatible with systems, which may not have   
    VA> Unicode support. I keep thinking about it and looking for possible   
    VA> ways to implement.   
      
   Backwards compatibility is nice but there always comes a point that it gets in   
   the way of progress and it has to be dropped. Are you thinking about the DOS   
   version? If so I say, forget about it. Freeze the DOS version, the small   
   minority that still uses DOS will have to make do with what they have fo the   
   rest of the life of DOS.   
      
   Another way may be to not use UTF-8 internally but use two byte widechrs   
   everywhere and simple store the raw unicode code point. Conversion to and from   
   code point to UTF-8 is simple. That will limit the use to the first 65535 code   
   points, but that might be enough for the remaining life of Fidonet. OTOH, that   
   is almost the same as what Window XP did. It used UTF-16 internally and   
   Microsoft now regrets that.   
      
    VA> For example function, which splits message to lines is almost 1000   
    VA> lines long! It has variables, used in multiple places, it not only   
    VA> splits the message, but guess charset, do recoding and other fun   
    VA> stuff.   
      
   Wauw!   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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