Hey Serak!

Here is a fine example of what would be a deal breaker to most.  Me?  You know better than that.  Not only am I smart and good looking, I am made of tougher stuff than the typical nodlisted Fidonet sysop.  :-)

 :read !trans -b -no-ansi -t he "To pronounce it correctly, I would have to pull out your tongue." | sed 's/^ *//'
.จจจ จจจจจ จจ จจจจจ จจจจจ ,จจจจ จจ จจ จจจจ จจจ

Note that the above is Hebrew ... or should be ... and I took the liberty of stripping out the leading spaces since a 4k terminal results in a very long line as the first character will be displayed at the end of the line and the entire line will be vastly greater that what will fit into a Subject line.

As shown the Hebrew Subject line is exactly 46 utf-8 characters which *should* fit into a FTN Subject which can be up to 71 characters.  However a byte count yeilds 82 bytes which the typical FTN abandonware will consider too long and chop off the last (actually first since Hebrew is read right to left) 12 bytes.  Note I say bytes and not characters since DOS-think types cannot count straight, especially when they treat stings as numbers.  Very sad.

So much for utf-8 and FTS-5003.  As is that document is sadly lacking wrt utf-8 charcters and probably should have it's own documentation in order to escape crippleware developers.

Also there is no such thing as LATIN-1.  It is the end result of some Gatesian nightmare you can never wake up from.

Life is good,
Maurice

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... Fidonet 4K - You load sixteen penguins and what do you get?
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