Text 5482, 44 rader
Skriven 2012-06-22 06:28:45 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 5478 av Mark Lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: a neat little test of utf-8
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Hey Mark!

 ML> discussions like this that we (you and i) have had over the years
 ML> like this

Understood but I don't see what it has to do with the matter at hand, nevermind
the FTSC, public or otherwise.

 ML> converted because they are above 127

I am not sure why that should be.  If the software in question claims to be
utf-8, or even 8 bit characters, compatible then it shouldn't have any issues
with quoting and if it does then don't quote.  So far all I have witnessed wrt
quoted replies to me from CP437 based editors haven't really had an issue other
than their local display of them.  I assume the same could be said for other 8
bit character based codepages.

 ML> i also want to work on a client at the same time

Ah!  That is simple.  Let them use their editor of choice like any decent
offline package would do.  However I doubt that really involves nttp, unless of
course it does (eg INN).  I can't really say much about any of those given that
I haven't really used newsgroups since ~1992-ish or so.  I did take INN out for
a test cruise recently but not with Fidonet.  What for?

I still believe that a pure FTN based messaging scheme is completely doable and
hopefully desirable.  If not desirable then I have to ask, why isn't it
desirable?  What is currently wrong with FTN that makes jumping through the
hoops using nttp protocols to do Fidonet?  Perhaps there is something
illuminating in the attempt to answer that particular question?

 ML> plus there's this GUI paradigm thing to think about

If you say so.  Sounds to me like Scott has a good handle on that realm
(Thunderbird).  I still think the FTN TZUTC kludge sucks sloughwater though.  I
do know that nttp handles it correctly (ie the '+' character where applicable
is honoured as it should be).

Life is good,
Maurice

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