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Skriven 2012-03-21 05:52:57 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
     Kommentar till en text av Benny Pedersen (2:230/0)
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Hey Benny!

 BP> but its not possible to make utf-8 read as cp437 in fidonet
 BP> there would be chars lost in that direction

Only if there are no matches to cp437 in the utf-8 message such as in 'A
Møøse once bit my sister ...'  However it should still display a valid cp437
character for 0xf8 which if I am not mistaken is the degree symbol or u00b0 in
utf-8 instead of u00f8.  Having said that it still probably won't work in most
fidonet apps given that no matter what it isn't a valid 7 bit character.

 BP> try posting utf-8 and read it as utf-8 on my jamnntpd ?

Sounds good to me.  There are two utf-8 characters in 'A Møøse once bit my
sister ...'  They look fine here on vim given it is a utf-8 capable editor. 
How about the below;

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Russian Alphabet

lower case
а б в г д е ё ж з и й к л м н о п р �� �� у �� х �� ч ш
ч ь ы ъ � �� ��

UPPER CASE
�� Б В Г �� Е �� Ж З И �� �� Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш
Щ Ь Ы Ъ Э Ю Я

"it's all greek to me."
Э��о в��е дл�� мен�� грече��кий

"I don't know" Ukrainian
Я не зна��.

"a tail with left-handed inch-based thread"
Хво���� �� левой д��ймовой резьбой
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A whole bunch of utf-8 multibyte characters in the above.  Same with the below
inserted file squirrels.in.my.pants;

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Swedish:  Jag har ekorrar i mina byxor
Credit:  Holger Granholm

Russian:  У мен�� в ш��анах белка!
Credit:  Alexey Vissarionov

German:  Ich habe Eichhörnchen in meiner Hose
Credit:  Markus Reschke
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

which 'file' reports as 'UTF-8 Unicode text' as luck would have it.  It still
lacks Danish squirrels in my pants though.  :-(

Life is good,
Maurice

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