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to: Michiel van der Vlist
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2024-02-25 01:11:00
subject: Encodings according to ft

  Re: Encodings according to fts-5003.001
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to Rob Swindell on Sun Feb 25 2024 08:31 am

 > 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.

Indeed.
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