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   Hello Maurice Kinal!   
      
    MK> Not surprising given that CP437 doesn't support CP866   
    MK> encoding.  The only encoding that properly supports   
    MK> differing languages is utf8.  CP437 falls short of   
    MK> supporting anything other than the so-call higher ascii,   
    MK> which of course is bogus.  All ascii are 7-bit characters   
    MK> and is well supported by most encodings in the range of   
    MK> 0x00 to 0x7f.  Anything above that isn't ascii, higher or   
    MK> otherwise.   
      
   So.. you're implying that utf8 should be baked into fidonet?   
      
   A vast majority of retro systems and software would still be     
   limited to the 7-bit chars and high-ascii, so.. what's the     
   urgency for utf8?   
      
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