Hello Maurice!

06 Jun 2017 22:34, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> feel free to make msged unicode compatibel

 MK> That will take a bit of doing.  Offhand I think a modified MSG format 
 MK> would be the place to start so that there is a text message structure 
 MK> that could be encorporated into msged and the ilk.

change to html, with all readers support ?

 MK> I've played with a 
 MK> purely text based MSG format for ages now and it is the basis for what 
 MK> I am doing in vim as we speak.

if we change lets change in a good way, not make we need another encoding
format, there is already to many to choice from :(

 BP>> does not help where unicode is not supported

 MK> I believe that squish and jam are the problem at the moment ... 
 MK> probably always were as far as a purely text based messaging format is 
 MK> concerned, including (especially?) where utf-8 compatibilty is 
 MK> concerned.

if squish is the problem, is smapi lib not a problem ?

if we take email:

quotedprinteble with unicode, at the same time so unicode only see 7bit, wtf ?

its time to let programmers wake up :=)

 MK> For now I am most concerned about bringing the coreutils' i18n 
 MK> compatibility up to date.

you dont need that, tidy is you friend :)

 MK> Hopefully that won't take too long and in 
 MK> the meantime I am playing around with a FTN-ish wireless mesh idea 
 MK> using the node and a point system (Guy Robot) that deploys binkd for 
 MK> transfers.

most fun come when it have colors, or led lights :=)

 MK> I was going to look at hpt later on and I suspect that 
 MK> would be the start of a utf-8 compatible Fidonet messaging system.

yes change smapi lib to support unicode will be the first start, later get rid
of programs not using smapi lib api

 MK> What do you think?

thanks i do think :=)

are you sure latin1 is more correct then latin-1 ?, imho amiga have always
being latin-1

maybe i just need to start amiga up again


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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