Hello Bj”rn,   
      
   On Monday February 03 2014 16:45, you wrote to All:   
      
    BF> Just out of curiosity: why in Heavens Name are you keeping the   
    BF> seven-bit restriction in the program?   
      
   It doesn't. For some time now - on my suggestion - it supports this option:   
      
   Allow8bit 1   
      
    BF>    Check out the listing of 2:203/6 to see what little progress we   
    BF> have made for soon to be 15 years. I've had that listing, properly   
    BF> spelled, for many years now, and I'm still just Bj?rn in the nodelist   
    BF> there... :(   
      
   There is just one little problem. Just as the ASCII only restriction is not   
   fair to the world outside the part where the native US English speakers live,   
   it would not be fair to restrict it to those that can spell their name or city   
   properly in CP437, CP850 or LATIN-1.   
      
   I we allow more than ASCII, we should allow ALL Fidonet participants to have   
   their name properly spelled. Unfortunately there is no single 8 bit character   
   set that can fulfil this requirement, and having a different character   
   encoding scheme for each line is ehh.. unpractical.   
      
   The only thing that makes sense is to use UTF-8. That means the ” in you name   
   will be encoded by two bytes in the nodelist.   
      
   When I see TWO questions marks in the nodelist for 2:203/6, we can discuss   
   this again.   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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