Hello Stas,

On Saturday January 22 2022 16:22, you wrote to August Abolins:

 SM> That's the way it should be. This will only work well in echo
 SM> conferences that explicitly allow or recommend the use of UTF-8.  In
 SM> other echo conferences, we are required to maintain backward
 SM> compatibility with 8-bit char software.

As decreed by who?

I would say it is the other way around. UTF-8 is allowed wherever it is not explicitly forbidden.

FYI: UTF-8 /is/ backward compatible with 8-bit char software. Contrary to UTF-16 or UTF-32. That is why we can use UTF-8 in Fidonet en we can not use UTF-16 and UTF-32.


Cheers, Michiel

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