Subj : 40 Cups of Coffee
To   : Nick Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Apr 06 2025 02:46:12

Hey Nick!

 > What are they probing and scanning for?

It's varied over the last year from internal bleeding to potential cancerous polyps.  The latest scan (ultrasound) showed a polyp on my gall bladder which will need to be checked out.  So far anything they've found has proved to be benign or cauterized in the case of internal bleeding.  No real fix yet and I have to get blood transfusions far too often.  :-(

 > A quick look at Wikipedia states that Windows has been using UTF-16
 > since Windows 2000, and didn't support UTF-8 in it's API until 2019.

Whoa!  Seems to me that they were recommending UTF-8 adoption further back than 2019.  Not having anything to do with MS products I can only account for what I've heard through the grapevine over the years.

 > Does my new tagline sway your decision on that?

Somewhat but I believe my decision is/was based on any dealings we've had over the years.

 > When is the last time you actually listed files on a BBS?

Somewhere around 1995-ish.

 > I can use a UTF-8 enabled Putty client with proper settings to
 > telnet and it displays pretty good (CP437 and UTF-8), though.

I started using tmux to take care of display issues that I used to use setserial for.  DOS-think based ansi art and the such now works much better but I haven't tried setting the terminal's character set to cp437 yet and logging onto a regular BBS with it ... yet.  I'll try yours later once I have a tmux terminal set to a proper DOS-think configuration.

 > The incessant need for fancy emojis, maybe?

That sounds about right.

Life is good,
Maurice

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