JH> Here's another example that was posted with what looks like cyrillic
 JH> text that ended up looking funky:

You will need a UTF-8 terminal to view UTF-8 for the most part.  If you are in a CP437 font/mode and there is UTF-8 it often cannot be displayed or converted back to the current codepage.  For example a CP437 terminal like NetRunner would not have the cyrillic characters since they are not part of CP437, so it cannot covert UTF-8 to CP437 in that case.

I do have a better "solution" to these types of things that I did a couple years back, but its a lot of work to move it into the code so I just haven't yet.  I really should do it soon though.

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