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|    UTF-8 question    |
|    01 Jan 20 08:35:04    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 907.fido-points@1:3634/12 2271d993       REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet dff112c9       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Oct 26 2019 GCC        TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.144 Oct 26 2019 GCC 7.4.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: UTF-8 question        By: August Abolins to Martin Foster on Tue Dec 31 2019 18:03:00                      > Being a DOS program, oxp's UTF-8 results are highly dependent on the Font        > set in use and the limits of that font's support. I thought Lucinda        > Console font would solve all the problems, but it does not.              remember that a lot of fonts still have only 256 slots in them... some few have        65535 slots and can hold a lot more character glyphs that the 256 slotted       ones... the full UTF-8 character set contains 2,097,152 characters and that may        not even be everything...              this question and comments on stackoverflow may help...              https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10229156/how-many-characters-can-utf-8-enco       de              then there's also this wikipedia page...              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8              hope this helps some...                     )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 57/0 90/1 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 267/800 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/0 1 100 330 340 772/0 1 500 2452/250       PATH: 3634/12 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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