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   Message 274 of 382   
   Sergey Dorofeev to Michiel van der Vlist   
   UTF-8 nodelist report   
   07 Mar 25 15:01:40   
   
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   TZUTC: 0300   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   Hello Michiel,   
      
   orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 07 Mar 25  09:36:19   
    MV> He insists on entering the 'a' and 'o' with umlaut in Säve and Björn in   
    MV> 202/208 in Latin-1 in the normal ASCII nodelist. So in the ASCII list they   
    MV> are replaced by question marks by MakeNl. In the UTF list which in his   
    MV> case is just a copy of the ASCII segment submitted, they appear "as   
    MV> submitted" and the line is flagged as in error by my program.   
      
   I think it is not very contradictory. I he will success in entering non-ASCII   
   chars in nodelist (making it full 8-bit), encoding must be defined. Ok, if it   
   will be latin-1, but let it be only for European segments.   
   That is, lets define encoding on per-region or even per-network basis. So when   
   importing nodelist, it must be split back on segments and correctly transcoded.   
   E.g. default encoding if ASCII, so Zone records must be ASCII. But zone may   
   specify own encoding, so regions in it may use it in own record, and define   
   encoding for underlying regions. Further, region record use zone encoding, and   
   may define encoding for networks. Network record use region encoding and may   
   define encoding for node records.   
      
    MV> To get it right Björn would have to be convinced to let go of the idea   
    MV> that entering LATIN-1 in the regular nodelist is not a good idea. Plus   
    MV> that he would have to start participating in the UTF nodelist project.   
      
   Usage of latin-1 has the issue, as it is windows' encoding, but in FIDO   
   traditionally used DOS charset such as CP437 (IBMPC), CP850, CP866.   
      
    MV> I have tried and sort of given up... :-(   
      
   If encoding for defaut nodelist will be settled, there will be no issue to   
   transcode it to UTF-8.   
      
   Sergey   
      
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