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to: Rob Swindell
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2024-02-25 08:31:00
subject: Encodings according to ft

Hello Rob,

On Saturday February 24 2024 17:28, you wrote to Nil Alexandrov:

 RS> I don't think UTF-16 or UTF-32 is supported in FTN. Nor should it be,
 RS> IMHO.

UTF-16 and UTF-32 have NULL bytes in the encoded stream. This conflicts with the use of the NULL byte as the "end of text" in Fidonet.


Cheers, Michiel

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