Re: Processing nodelists with UTF?   
     By: Janis Kracht to Nicholas Boel on Tue Jan 17 2012 12:24 am   
      
    > Set up makenl_ng, and test it out with some characters as in Bjorn's first    
    > name, maybe use them in your own name for instance perhaps with a test node    
    > number like 9999 in one of the networks where you are NC.   
      
   Did this. I threw an alt-154 into a random name and ran a process. The output   
   was the same. I got a ?? in place of it. This can only be concluded that makenl   
   needs to be updated to support utf-8 and/or high ascii, is all. Though that's   
   only one step, as in that's just the nodelist. Then it would have to be taken   
   care of in Fidonet as a whole. Which with the random amounts of different BBS   
   softwares out there (some of which aren't even maintained anymore), it will   
   probably be quite difficult. It would probably be more of a "some will move on,   
   others won't" kind of deal, I suppose.   
      
   I also refuse to use an NNTP reader on my BBS. That's like blasphemy, and   
   stuff. But like I said, I've seen some high ascii characters come through just   
   fine here at The Pharcyde. It only seems as though sometimes it gets jumbled   
   up.   
      
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