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echo: tuxpower
to: Maurice Kinal
from: Alexander Grotewohl
date: 2024-03-17 18:07:00
subject: conversion to cp866

On 17 Mar 2024, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK>  AA> What I meant was should it be "the" standard in character support
 MK>  AA> in fidonet products?
 MK> 
 MK> No but it definetly should be if one wishes to claim a completely capable
 MK> product.  I would wish no less for you and yours.

it feels kind of lame that BBS systems still use codepages.

my term (ZOC) obviously is just translating CP437 to my UTF-8 font and it
displays all the line drawing and pseudo graphic characters (imo) better than
almost all the retro fonts ever did..

so i've been a long time IRC user and one day someone, or noone, basically
decided IRC was going to be UTF-8 and if you couldn't read what was written
too bad.

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