On 2019 Jul 05 19:02:52, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 MK> @REPLY: 30261.ftsc_pub@1:103/705 2184b729
 MK> @MSGID: 2:280/464.113 5d1f9edc
 MK> @CHRS: UTF-8 4
 MK> Hallo Rob!

 RS>> Can you send again with the CHRS: UTF-8 control paragraph?

 MK> Yes I can.  I'll insert it in this reply below;


just so you know and can verify... here's a screen shot of your message i'm 
replying to...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/whqhf5xtle1opkx/20190705-fidonet-ftsc_public-maurice-utf8-testing-01.jpg?dl=1

https://tinyurl.com/y6lqhovs
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6lqhovs

you can easily see the multibyte codes in the hex table even though the 
character is not formed properly in the text side... that is because it is a 
hex character being viewed in a CP437 terminal... if i type in characters like 
o diaresis and similar, they are displayed in the same manner... some byte 
followed by a tilde followed by a character... generally a capital one in what 
i've seen...

 MK> Hallo Natasha!

 MK> Unicode  Character    hex              name
 MK> U+040D     Ѝ         d0 8d  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
 MK> U+044D     э         d1 8d  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E
 MK> U+048D     ҍ         d2 8d  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SEMISOFT SIGN
 MK> U+04CD     Ӎ         d3 8d  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM WITH TAIL

 MK> Please not the "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM WITH TAIL"!?!?!?!?!?  Oh the
 MK> humanity.

 MK> Het leven is goed,
 MK> Maurice

 MK> ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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 MK> @PATH: 280/464 154/10 3634/12



)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.
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