Hi Nick!   
      
   > No it's not the only way to go. But why not just do it so it supports it? I   
   > mean, just supporting high ascii would be kind of the cheesy hack just to get   
   > it to work "for now".. wouldn't it?   
      
   It might also break a lot of legacy bbs software, if no one has tested high   
   ascii in those programs we can't know.   
      
   Years ago I ran Maximus under DOS.. first setup on my bbs, btw . The   
   first version of Maximus was released with source code (version 1.0 or   
   something like that).  All ANSI codes were disabled in Maximus and it used   
   it's own color codes, etc. to create colorful screens and menus, etc. (MEC   
   files).  I wrote C code at the time to incorporate ANSI color in the message   
   areas back then.. but that was just my own personal version of Maximus.   
   Anyway, the point is bbs software like Maximus might not like utf-8.. and   
   there are still people using it.   
      
   >> 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   
   >> Björn'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.   
      
   >In this case, it came through just fine over here. My quote of it even shows i   
   > right. So if it comes back to you jumbled, take a look at my seen-by's.   
      
   The PATH line might be more relevant.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   There's nothing in BBBS to turn on utf-8.. but as I said, you don't have to   
   use the built-in editor.  A different built-in editor than the normal one is   
   based somewhat gnu-emacs and uses "the 128-character ASCII character set, and   
   provides support for 8-bit characters."  If you use that one, named MG, the   
   author mentions that since there is no standard 8-bit character set, the same   
   character codes will probably give different glyphs on different systems.   
      
   > It's possible. Granted, I've looked at the BBBS config before, and I didn't   
   > know it was possible cramming that much shit into minimal amounts of config   
   > screens. Then I checked MBSE and was wow'd yet again. I don't think you could   
   > pay me to run either one of those. :)   
      
   Bah, there's not that much there, really   And you don't have to use all   
   of BBBS's features, for example all of it's daemons.  For instance, a while   
   back I did have the smtp daemon running, but don't now.  And most of the   
   daemons are set up with text files anyhow :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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