20 Jan 12 20:38, Nicholas Boel wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    NB>   Re: Processing nodelists with UTF?   
    NB>   By: Roy Witt to Nicholas Boel on Thu Jan 19 2012 05:57 am   
      
    >> Of course UTF-8 can do that, but I don't think it's the only way to   
    >> go.   
      
    NB> No it's not the only way to go. But why not just do it so it supports   
    NB> it?   
      
   Because there is ancient FTN software that would be affected by the use of   
   UTF-8...it would be better to make this or new software that is backward   
   compatable.   
      
    NB> I mean, just supporting high ascii would be kind of the cheesy   
    NB> hack just to get it to work "for now".. wouldn't it?   
      
   Add UTF-8 to it but don't take away anything it can do now.   
      
    >> An umlaut character is merely a high ASCII character...even with a DOS   
    >> system, the high ASCII character set can be typed. Some keyboards have   
    >> the ability to turn on or off the umlaut characters. Even if you don't   
    >> have one of those keyboards, you can use Alt-xxx, xxx representing the   
    >> Hex code for the character. i.e. Alt-148 will give you the umlaut   
    >> character in Bj”rn's name. (if the umlaut character isn't displayed on   
    >> your screen when you read this, it has been converted to 'oe' by my   
    >> uplink's system.   
      
    NB> In this case, it came through just fine over here. My quote of it   
    NB> even shows it right. So if it comes back to you jumbled, take a look   
    NB> at my seen-by's.   
      
   It's been quoted twice as it went out from here.   
      
    >> Janis' BBS software may have the switch to turn it on or off. She'll   
    >> have to look in her configs for it. There's nothing anyone can do for   
    >> MN, unless they have the source code to change it.   
      
    NB> It's possible. Granted, I've looked at the BBBS config before, and I   
    NB> didn't know it was possible cramming that much shit into minimal   
    NB> amounts of config screens.   
      
   I didn't like it either.   
      
    NB>  Then I checked MBSE and was wow'd yet again. I don't think you could   
    NB> pay me to run either one of those. :)   
      
   Shhhhh, somebody might make you an offer you can't refuse.   
      
      
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