Hello Maurice!

30 Mar 15 13:24, you wrote to me:

 KvE>> Unfortunately many sysops are here for nastalgic reasons, using
 KvE>> nostalgic OS'ses and nostalgic software.

 MK> If true then they'll be using ascii.  No?  :::evil grin:::

 Shure, what else, that is where campatibillity ends.

 KvE>> So UTF-8 is ok, as long as you stick to the first 127 codepoints.

 MK> If you meant to say that the first 127 codepoints are all 7-bit
 MK> corresponding to the *true* ascii codes then utf-8 does indeed work, along
 MK> with most 8-bit codepages.  The advantage utf-8 has over ALL 8-bit
 MK> codepages is that utf-8 can handle multiple languages within a single
 MK> document as demontrated by the message (subject: test 50 utf-8 character
 MK> wordwrap, MSGID: 1:153/7001.0 55186483) posted in this echo.

 But only a few can read it either way. On one reader I get a archaic bunch
 of rubbish that I cannot read. On another reader I get a bunch of
 organised rubbish, that I cannot read, as I cannot read Cyrrilic nor Greek,
 or was the second something else.

 MK> A piece of cake.  :-)

 But still useless to me.

Kees

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