Hello Maurice,

On 07 Mar 16 01:12, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Actually, it was more the fact that the telnet program I'm
 NB>> accessing the BBS with doesn't support UTF-8

 MK> Ah!  That makes sense.  Have you tried the telnet that comes with
 MK> GNU's inetutils?  I currently don't have it or any other telnet client
 MK> as I haven't used telnet for ages now.  ssh is best and utf8
 MK> characters definetly work.  I know this for a fact as I use it daily
 MK> especially on wireless connections.

I just did, and it does indeed work both reading and writing UTF-8 from the
BBS. However, the BBS displays most things in ANSI, so everything else but the
messages look like garbage. :)

Regards,
Nick

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