On Tuesday November 26 2013 20:59, you wrote to Andrew Leary:
AL>> Personally, I think getting everyone upgraded to allow AL>> -Unpublished- without Pvt is a higher priority, but at this point AL>> maybe we will be able to allow both of these options to be AL>> enabled at the same time.
KE> If allowing -Unpublished-, whenever that may be, has to wait for a KE> consensus on the 8 bit characterset, then it will never happen in the KE> lifetime of Fidonet.
I agree that we should not wait for that when introducing -Unpublished- without Pvt. In fact I think we should no longer wait. Period.
KE> From messages in this echo during the last few weeks, UTF-8 is not an KE> option.
I have seen some arguments against using UTF-8 in messages. So far however I have seen no arguments against UTF-8 in the nodelist. Other than using ANY non ASCII characters that is.
KE> Or will there be an extra tag, that denotes the charater set KE> for the current line in teh nodelist?
That of course is not practical. The only practical downward compatible way is that the whole nodelist is in one and the same character encoding scheme. And since there is no single 8 bit character encoding scheme that can fulfil the needs of all the users of the nodelist, UTF-8 is the only logical choice for encoding the nodelist.
