>> So let me get this straight: >> >> 1) If the message that is responded to, is encoded in CP437, >> Synchronet answers in CP437. Yes?
RS> No. The message response itself determines the encoding and only CP437 RS> terminals can faithfully author CP437 encoded messages. If a UTF-8 RS> terminal user responds to a CP437 encoded message (with non-ASCII RS> chars), the original message text is converted to UTF-8 before it is RS> quoted and the response will be UTF-8. Unless there are no non-ASCII RS> chars in the response, in which case the response charset witll just RS> be ASCII.
I see... So it is the terminal - or whatever functions as its equivalent - and only the terminal that determines the encoding of the message at hand.
>> So what happens if the response does not fit into CP437?
RS> I think this question is making false assumptions.
It is making assumtions, but they are not false I would say. Read on.. I will come back to that further down.
>> What happens if the original message is encoded in a one byte >> encoding other than CP437?
RS> The only encodings Synchronet supports for message text are ASCII, RS> CP437, and UTF-8.
Hmmm... That leaves out a big part of Fidonet. These days the majority, maybe the vast majority is writen in a language that uses the Cyrillic alfabet and the encoding is CP866.
>> 2) If the message that is responded to is encoded in UTF-8, >> Synchronet answers in UTF-8 if the terminal that is used supports >> UTF-8. Yes?
RS> Yes.
OK, so far so good...
>> So what happens in that case if the terminal does not support >> UTF-8?
RS> The message text would be converted to CP437 before being quoted and RS> the response would be in CP437.
And now I come back to my previous question: what happens if it does not fit into CP437? That can easely happen. A Euro sign '€' can be composed in UTF-8 but it does not fit into CP437.
>> My software translates the CP437 encoded degree sign into UTF-8 as >> you can see.
RS> Yup, most software does the same, when appropriate.
My Golded does, but the reverse is a bit problematic.
