On Sunday November 24 2013 18:57, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:
JD>> Yes, and that would be region by region. A universal character JD>> set does not really exist, IMO. UTF 8 might be close, but I dont JD>> think it handles Cyrillic does it?
AV> It does, but in a very stupid way.
In what way is it "stupid"?
AV>>> in Russian normally use KOI8-R (defined in the GOST 19768-74 AV>>> standard, see also RFC 1489), and Fidonet messages in R50 (and AV>>> around) normally use CP866. JD>> Yup. Very aware of that.
AV> Given that, when we need to use English, we don't change anything, but AV> simply use the Latin part of those character sets.