Hello Maurice!

30 Mar 15 13:43, you wrote to me:

 KvE>> A bit of a problem with LATIN-1

 MK> There is no such thing.  You must have meant to say LATIN1 which is the
 MK> official alias for ISO-8859-1.  ;-)

 Experience with automatic processing of human written text hat taught me,
 that all three are the same.

 MK> Besides that, it cannot be converted to ANY 8-bit character set since
 MK> there are two languages there that cannot be expressed in LATIN1;  Russian
 MK> and Greek.

 I have connected to some russian echo's and have come to the conclusion
 that they manage very well with CP866.
 I am not aware of any participants in fidonet who need the Greek character
 set, nor the glyphs used by the Hebrew.

 MK> UTF-8 is the *only* way to proceed if internationalization of Fidonet
 MK> is a goal while maintaining compatibilty with ASCII.

 UTF-8 is only an option, when software is written that can handle it and
 caters to all the weird environments Fidonet sysops work with.
 It is too late in the History of Fidonet for that to happen.
 We are stuck with the only common denominator "ASCII".

Kees

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