Hello Richard!   
      
   10 Jun 2018 20:38, Richard Menedetter wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    MK>> However a kludge is most often wrong or poorly identified such as   
    MK>> LATIN-1.   
      
   +1   
      
    RM> I agree that having widely available UTF-8 support in Fidonet software    
    RM> would be very nice.   
      
   we live with old 8bit standards from commodore 64 still, if computers was   
   32bit at the first ones, we would not need any kind of stupid encoding   
   standards :)   
      
    RM> Sadly that is not the case.   
      
   +1   
      
    RM> Most software used is incapable of displaying UTF-8 characters    
    RM> correctly.   
      
   so atleast show it as 7bit would not be a fail   
      
    RM> (Mostly due to the software being written before UTF-8 was    
    RM> standardized.)   
      
   fidonet software could indeed be writed to use html, yark ?, i think not if we   
   all rethink why   
      
    RM> And the kludge   
    RM> @CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
    RM> is NOT poorly identified, it is clearly stated that this character set    
    RM> is to be used:   
    RM> "ISO 8859-1 (Western European)"   
      
   or keep what is supported in very long time   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
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