On Tuesday November 26 2013 04:56, you wrote to Dale Shipp:
AL> The current version of FTS-5000 (v4 from December 2012) specifies AL> 7-bit ASCII as the acceptable character set in the distribution AL> nodelist.
A relic from the early days of computing when resources were scarce and expensive. Barely affordable for the grunt sysop. But that was three decades ago....
AL> MakeNL_NG 3.3.6 and later do have an OPTION "Allow8Bit" AL> which can be used to allow 8-bit characters. It is disabled by AL> default, in compliance with the current standard.
Thank you for following my suggestion and so at least offering the option of breaking with this antiquated restraint.