Hey Richard!

 RM> Tina Turner is a node in Fidonet??

Not that I am aware of but I posted it to her anyhow given the subject.

 RM> Why was there no REPLY Kludge?

It wasn't a reply.

 RM> If you spell Eichhörnchen like Eichhoernchen then you get away
 RM> with ASCII for German.

But then how would I spell Björn?  I suppose I could spell it Bjørn instead
but then Björn might go off the rails and nobody wants that ... do they?

 RM> If the software supports UTF-8

Yes it does.  As in the post "simply the best" it wrote German, Russian, Greek,
 Swedish and English.  Unfortunetly the Swedish was all ascii but I have been
know to post Swedish with utf8 characters in the past without any complaints. 
Mind you I believe it was you that had issues with one of my Swedish proverbs
in the LINUX echo not too long ago.

 RM> and you can read/write Russian, Hebrew, Arab or Chinese

They are all possible except with Chinese I'd have to move to a GUI app instead
 of the console.  However since this is the FTSC_PUBLIC forum I believe that
Hebrew, Arab and Chinese are not supported, along with almost every other
language on the planet.  Also I threw Greek in the post which is also not
supported by the FTSC so I suppose you caught me red handed breaking with
'standards'.  Oh well.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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