Hej August!

 AA> So.. you're implying that utf8 should be baked into fidonet?

It already is.  Has been for over a decade now.

 AA> A vast majority of retro systems and software would still be
 AA> limited to the 7-bit chars and high-ascii,

Not a problem.  utf8, like most of the 8-bit codepages, has ascii built into it.  Without that you'd have a very good case for rejecting it in any ftsc document.  As is your argument has no teeth.

 AA> so.. what's the urgency for utf8?

No urgency other than being first and best, which undoubtably I am ... or at least I used to be.  I had it working before it became part of fts-5003.001.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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