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   PID: OpenXP/5.0.42 (Win32)   
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   Hello mark!   
      
   ** 01.01.20 - 08:35, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    >> .. I thought Lucinda Console font would solve all the problems, but it   
    >> does not.   
      
    ml>remember that a lot of fonts still have only 256 slots in them... some   
    ml>few have  65535 slots and can hold a lot more character glyphs that   
    ml>the 256 slotted ones... the full UTF-8 character set contains   
    ml>2,097,152 characters and that may  not even be everything...   
      
      
   Thanks for the stackoverflow and wikipedia links.   
      
      
    ml>hope this helps some...   
      
   Yes, it does!  The whole science/math behind font sets impresses me.   
      
   Having worked briefly on coding for UI for custom displays in the past was     
   a lot of fun. At that time I had specific sets of pre-designed elements     
   and rules to follow and could even design my own chars.   
      
   In the case of Win32/DOS based OpenXP, the limitation is the existing font     
   set: Lucida Console.  Lucida Console "supports" many of the extended chars     
   and some foreign language chars.  But OpenXP adds further limitations. :(   
      
   OpenXP adds a CHARset kludge: ASCII 1, US-ASCII, IBMPC 2, ..but it seems     
   to select each one automatically based on content it detects.  ???   
      
   It can be configured to interpret a subset of UTF-8 on incoming messages,     
   but it never generates the UTF-8 kludge for outgoing messages/replies to     
   match.   
      
   OpenXP allows launching an external editor. Maybe I can explore its UTF-8     
   support with the famous multi-charset GoatEd (now gossiped?) or something.     
   Is there a ready-made win32 version of it?   
      
   I like the way Thunderbird can be configured to use a specific charset (it     
   uses the term "character encoding"). There, the UTF-8 setting covers a     
   broad range of characters for proper display.   
      
   Take care.. Have a great day!   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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