GE> What multi-byte character sets are currently used in ftn messages?

 HR> Absolutly none.

I was under the impression that Big-5 used to be used in ftn messages.

These days I receive practically no messages from zone 6 and even fewer in
Chinese. Maybe it's still used.

Look at the character code table for Big-5 and I believe you'll find that
they have taken care to avoid the sort of problems you mentioned.


At least technically, UTF could be used as transport encoding to use
Unicode or ISO-10646 in ftn messages. I don't think that I've ever seen it
used in messages originating in a ftn network. However, UTF encoded
messages are appearing to Internet. Since there are a number of gateway
programs around, I could well imagine that one or the other of them would
translate such an Internet message into a ftn message. With UTF encoding
unchanged.


Likewise there are Big-5 messages on the Internet which someone might gate
into ftn messages without changing the character set.

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