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Hello Rob,
On Sunday March 05 2023 11:40, you wrote to me:
>> I see... So it is the terminal - or whatever functions as its
>> equivalent - and only the terminal that determines the encoding of the
>> message at hand.
RS> Or rather, the message content created with that terminal. If the
RS> content is just plain ASCII, regardless of the terminal that created
RS> it, then the message will fly the ASCII charset flag. In Synchronet, a
RS> CP437 terminal cannot be used to created UTF-8 content, so messages
RS> created by such a terminal will either be ASCII or CP437 encoded.
Understood.
>> RS> The only encodings Synchronet supports for message text are
>> RS> ASCII, CP437, and UTF-8.
>>
>> Hmmm... That leaves out a big part of Fidonet. These days the
>> majority, maybe the vast majority is writen in a language that uses
>> the Cyrillic alfabet and the encoding is CP866.
RS> True, that`s the state of things.
Well, at least those needing more that CP437 can use UTF-8.
>> >> So what happens in that case if the terminal does not support
>> >> UTF-8?
>>
>> RS> The message text would be converted to CP437 before being
>> RS> quoted and the response would be in CP437.
>>
>> And now I come back to my previous question: what happens if it
>> does not fit into CP437? That can easely happen. A Euro sign `┬┐`
>> can be composed in UTF-8 but it does not fit into CP437.
I see that the EURO sign is translated into an inverted question mark.
RS> When a CP437 terminal user quotes a UTF-8 message that contains
RS> untranslatable UNICODE codepoints without a CP437 equivalent, they`re
RS> translated to character that indiciates it was untranslatable. By
RS> default, that character is the upside down question mark.
Check.
Next question: Can Synchonet deal with a UTF-8 encoded nodelist?
Here is where to find one:
http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/fidolist/z2daily.065
Cheers, Michiel
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