On 06 Jan 14 04:34, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:
MK> Add to that the kludge in your reply says "CHRS: UTF-8 2" which is MK> wrong according to FTSC standards but is correct with respect to MK> Unicode standards for UTF-8 wheres Golded puts a "CHRS: UTF-8 4" MK> kludge which in reality is bogus since it really cannot REALLY live up MK> to the Unicode UTF-8 standards.
It would at least be nice if some of the most popular editors of today's FTN age could display the characters properly. The fact that noone wants to do anything about it kind of baffles me, though.
I would if I could, but I'm not a programmer. :|
MK> I think what you are currently doing with Golded/nano is probably the MK> best things get for what you really want at this point in time despite MK> the "CHRS: UTF-8 2" kludge. I fail to see why it should be okay to MK> send a dishonourable kludge (Golded's UTF-8 4) and not okay to send an MK> honourable kludge (hpt's UTF-8 2) which only happens to be wrong MK> because some Fidonet 8-bit DOS-think hacker says it is wrong when it MK> obviously isn't wrong ... other than the level part that is which MK> looks to be totally bogus from this angle anyhow.
I agree that this is the best way I can do it currently. As long as I know my messages are leaving here the way they should, I suppose it doesn't matter what the software says, especially if noone wants to fix it.
MK> Heck it isn't like the FTSC will do anything about it anyhow.
They can't, nor would they. They've never been a body of enforcement.
Regards, Nick
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