-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> The board has only been in Fidonet for a week (as of tomorrow!),
 TL> so perhaps your nodelist is not quite up to date?

 MK> Aha!  Yeah that explains it and I am sure it'll show up in Friday's
 MK> update.

Should do. :)

 TL> I'm using Notepad on Windows,

 MK> That explains the BOM at the beginning of your actual text message just
 MK> before, "-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-" on the first
 MK> line.  I should have guessed given I've seen it used before in Fidonet
 MK> and it did the exact same thing at the first byte of the actual,
 MK> printable text message.

I don't know what a BOM is - it's not a bill of materials, or even a bureau of
meteorology! :)  I've never really dealt with the innards of UTF-8. :)

 MK> For the record the BOM is unneeded in utf-8 but it doesn't hurt
 MK> anything if it is there.

 TL> which is far more likely to be UTF-8 compliant than Fido compliant

 MK> No doubt about that here.  I have yet to see any Fidonet app get it
 MK> right other than ones that call up non-native editors such as you and I
 MK> are doing.

Given that most Fidonet apps were written (and in many cases, last updated)
before UTF-8 came along, I'm not surprised! :)  Obviously, calling up more
moden third party editors works for some things. :)
... A cat is always on the wrong side of the door!
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