On 2017 Jul 13 22:09:34, you wrote to me:

 ak>>> But do many people have FTN fido software which doesn't support
 ak>>> UTF8? Golded, for instance.

 ml>> GoldEd(+) can but the real problem is generally in the display
 ml>> terminals used... especially when, for example, all CP437 characters
 ml>> are not properly cross-mapped to their UTF-8 equivalents before being
 ml>> sent to the video sub-system for display... the question is what
 ml>> should be doing the cross-mapping... then there's the question of the
 ml>> fonts where some only have 256 glyphs and others may have 512 glyphs
 ml>> which leaves still a huge shortage of glyphs that may need to be
 ml>> displayed...

 ak> IMHO, such a cross mapping cannot solve UTF8 translation on one byte
 ak> systems fully. And therefore there is no sense to do it at all. What
 ak> are you supposing to see after cross mapping Russian text into CP437?

you're going the wrong way around... i'm talking specifically about mapping
CP437 characters into UTF-8 for display purposes on a UTF-8 system... more
specifically the box and frame drawing characters above 127 in the CP437
character table... GoldEd(+) uses them to draw its own frames and borders so
why can't it also do the same with them when they are in message text??

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