On Friday April 02 2021 14:33, you wrote to mark lewis:
MK> I believe I was the first truly working UTF-8 capable fidonet node - MK> with or without the CHRS kludge. :-)
Believe what you want, but your belief is not consistent with the known facts. You are not the first, I was before you. But I was not the first either.
A fidonet NODE is what transfers files between the outbound of one system and the inbound of the other system. This process is fully 8 bit transparent and encoding agnostic. ALL Fidonet NODES are "working UTF-8 capable".