= Сообщение: 993 из 7128 ======================================= FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Maurice Kinal 1:153/7001 06 Jan 14 23:13:43 Кому : Kees van Eeten 06 Jan 14 23:13:43 Тема : all over but the crying? FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:153/7001.0+52cb38a7 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/5003.4+52cb2b87 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== Hey Kees!
KvE> I seldom use characters above 0x8F
I am guesstimating that ~90% of the characters in play here lie between 0x30 - 0x7a and most of the remaining ~10% are 0x20 (space) and 0x0a (linefeed). A few others in scripting but not many of those in text messaging such as this.
KvE> choice between the Devil and de deep blue see
Something like that. It depends on what the goal is. I am certainly not adverse to the extra bytes utf-8 will add to text messaging in Fidonet if indeed that is a desirable goal. I am confident that I have proved it can and does work, as well as supports many, many, many more possibilities than the current fts-5003 supports. However I'd be more inclined to favour it as utf-8 messaging rather than conversion to ANY 8-bit codepage. I think doing 8-bit conversion is just asking for trouble. It can work but relies far too much on everyone cooperating and only sending the correct utf-8 characters that can be successfully converted to the targetted codepage. What do you think the odds are for that ideology being successful? Myself I have very serious doubts.
KvE> although my friends in R24 and I are all from a generation KvE> that did not live in those nasty times.
I can and will confirm your above usage of 'nasty times'. They are still with us despite the choices that exist today to help correct the nastiness.
Life is good, Maurice
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