On 04 Jan 14 16:53, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:
MK> Hey Nicholas!
NB>> FTS-5003.001 covers how UTF-8 _should_ be posted, and with what NB>> level.
MK> Exactly what is a level and how is it supposed to be implimented? MK> Near as I can tell characters are either UTF-8 or they aren't no MK> matter what level the kludge claims they are. Can this be considered MK> another bogus claim to the word 'standard'? Methinks it is and you MK> have provided evidence that this is so.
From FTS-5003.001:
Level 4 -------
Level 4 is for multi byte character encodings. The only presently known implementation is UTF-8.
[snip]
So basically, posting in UTF-8 should be level 4 regardless whether the actual level parameter is there or not. It shouldn't matter. Either way, it should definitely NOT be showing up as "UTF-8 2".
If what Kees says is true, and it's in the translation tables (which I've tried manually setting to a level 4, and also using a workaround that was done for the Win32 version that Michiel uses), then those translation tables are still maintained by the developers of Golded, since their formatting has been changed so Golded can read them properly. There's definitely something wrong, and I'd like to find out what it is.
NB>> As it seems, the current maintainer of Golded happens to be one NB>> of the authors of FTS-5003.001, so that may help the cause at NB>> least.
MK> I won't be betting the farm on that. Like I say above, UTF-8 MK> characters are UTF-8 characters despite what some might claim they MK> are. The current maintainer of Golded ought to know if indeed he MK> actually cares about UTF-8 compatibilty.
He may or may not care about it, but since he also co-authored FTS-5003.001, the level 4 kludge should at least be honored while I'm using a multibyte character encoding. No?
MK> I for one think this is on topic for this particular echo.
While it is in relation to documented standards, I suppose I can agree there.
Regards, Nick
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