Hello Michiel!   
      
   Thursday January 10 2013 16:42, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Bj”rn Felten:   
      
    MvdV> I am all for lifting the ASCII only limitation for the nodelist. Seo   
    MvdV> Andrew how about an option:   
      
    MvdV> AllowNonAscii 0|1    ??   
      
   I will look into this.   
      
    BF>>    If you had rather used my Y2K patched version (where the   
    BF>> outdated 26 character limitation was one of corrections I made),   
    BF>> available for more than 12 years now, 2:203/6 would read   
    BF>> correctly.   
      
    MvdV> Correctly in what character encoding scheme?   
      
    MvdV> Because here is where I see an issue. If 7 bit only was forced on us   
    MvdV> by what now is a majority, we do not want to do the same unto others   
    MvdV> do we? I strongly suspect that you used an 8 bit character set for   
    MvdV> your Umlaut experiment. Like CP850 or Latin-1. That is fine for us   
    MvdV> Western Europeans who need umlauts and accnets.  But not so fine for   
    MvdV> what is now the majority: those who use a cyrillic character set for   
    MvdV> their native languages. It is them that are the majority now. They   
    MvdV> need CP866 or KOI8R...   
      
    MvdV> Surely we do not want to force CP850 or Latin-1 one onto them do we?   
      
    MvdV> Unfortunately I see no practical way to swicth charactere encoding on   
    MvdV> the fly in the nodelist. Also unfortunately there is no 8 bit   
    MvdV> character set that covers both umlauts, accents AND cyrillic.   
      
    MvdV> So... /if/ we allow non ASCII in the nodleist, it will have to be   
    MvdV> encoded as UTF-8.   
      
   This is probably the only solution to the problem.  I'm not sure of the effect   
   on MakeNL (or any other FTN software for that matter) of UTF-8 characters in   
   the nodelist segments; it will require thorough testing before going live with   
   a UTF-8 enabled nodelist.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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