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|    Message 739 of 1,237    |
|    Maurice Kinal to August Abolins    |
|    conversion to cp866    |
|    17 Mar 24 13:53:20    |
      REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 12877dcb       MSGID: 2:280/464.113 65f6f5d0       CHRS: UTF-8 4       Hej August!               AA> So.. you're implying that utf8 should be baked into fidonet?              It already is. Has been for over a decade now.               AA> A vast majority of retro systems and software would still be        AA> limited to the 7-bit chars and high-ascii,              Not a problem. utf8, like most of the 8-bit codepages, has ascii built into       it. Without that you'd have a very good case for rejecting it in any ftsc       document. As is your argument has no teeth.               AA> so.. what's the urgency for utf8?              No urgency other than being first and best, which undoubtably I am ... or at       least I used to be. I had it working before it became part of fts-5003.001.              Het leven is goed,       Maurice               o- -o o- o-       /) (\ /) /)       ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^       ... Fidonet 1080p - De vier pinguïns van de Apocalyps       --- GNU bash, version 5.2.26(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint @ (2:280/464.113)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260       SEEN-BY: 135/225 153/757 7715 154/10 30 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 601 700       SEEN-BY: 218/820 840 850 860 870 880 930 940 221/0 1 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111 292/8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 301/113 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 280/464 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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