Hello Kees,

On Monday May 27 2019 11:00, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> I suggest the editor accepts only articles encoded in UTF-8 and
 MvdV>> patches his software to use a "CHRS UTF-8 4" kludge.

 KE>  No, 7 bit pure ASCII only, would be less complex.

For the ASCII only, English only community: Agreed.

However... the editor has rebelled against the dominant ASCII only/English only
culture in Fiodonet for decades and has repeatedly stated that articles in
other languages are welcome. He has also been bragging that his software "has
been patched for"/"is capable of" dealing with non-ASCII characters.

Considering that these days most messages in Fiodonet are written in Cyrillic,
one would expect that articles written in an encoding that covers Cyrillic are
accepted.

Also considering that the editor has been making an issue of the correct
spelling of his first name for decades, one would expect that articles written
in an encoding that covers the 'o' diaeresis are also accepted.

AFAIK, the only encoding in use in Fidonet that covers both cyrillic and the
'o' diaeresis is UTF-8.


Cheers, Michiel

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