Hallo Richard!   
      
    RM> What difference does it make?   
    RM> Most people (I assume >> 90% percent will NOT be able to see   
    RM> extended characters correctly   
      
   If by extended you mean multibyte then by the accounts I have read lately the   
   majority of users can read them but I believe that has nothing to do with   
   fidonet editors.  From my observations even the old DOS editors that cannot   
   properly display them can replicate them perfectly.  So far only the 8-bit   
   fidonet editors, such as golded+ and msged, that have issues replicating   
   multibyte characters and in fact totally screw them up.  So even abandonware   
   DOS-think is superior to those products which is a very sad testiment to all   
   things FTN compliant methinks.   
      
   As for what difference it makes, my guesstimation is probably no difference   
   but I still think it is/was worth the effort.  We'll see I am sure.   
      
    RM> But it WILL make a difference for Jamnntpd or Hotdoged, that DO   
    RM> support UTF-8.   
      
   There you go.  However I am doubtful about the CHRS kludge being required for   
   either of them to recognize UTF-8 characters.   
      
    RM> No new information from your test.   
      
   Don't be so sure.  I don't see you using LATIN-1 for ISO-8859-1 in this latest   
   reply, although 8859-1 isn't a legitimate alias either.  Oh well, one step at   
   a time eh?  :-)   
      
   -={ grep 8859-1// /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules }=-   
   alias	ISO-IR-100//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	ISO_8859-1:1987//	ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	ISO_8859-1//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	ISO8859-1//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	ISO88591//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	LATIN1//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	L1//			ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	IBM819//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	CP819//			ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	CSISOLATIN1//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	8859_1//		ISO-8859-1//   
   alias	OSF00010001//		ISO-8859-1//   
   module	ISO-8859-1//		INTERNAL		ISO8859-1	1   
   module	INTERNAL		ISO-8859-1//		ISO8859-1	1   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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