Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Mar 11 2025 17:56:12

Hey Michiel!

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:10:08 +0100, you wrote:

 > How was that before the computer age? How is it written on your birth
 > certificate? Your father's?

You sparked my interest, so I dug it up from the bottom of a drawer in my bedroom, and no. None of the names on my birth certificate have it (they all look to be typed with a typewriter), except for my mother's signature. :)

 > Done. You should receive the next dailyutf tomorrow. (Later today for
 > you)

Thanks!

 >> @PATH: 154/10 280/5555

Perfect. I guess I never turned that off, either. I just set up another link to it at some point when your system went down.

 > So you could be the first...

Maybe. If I can figure out a good way to send it up the chain of clerks. :)

 > Naming conventions here in Z2 for Region and net segments are UTFRxx and
 > UTFNyyy. You can follow that or - as you would be the first in Z1 -
 > create you own naming scheme. ;-)

Noted.

 > If Z1C does not want to cooperate we have to look for other ways to get
 > your UTF region segment into the DAILYUTF.

I'll see what happens, I suppose.

 > There is a difference between Windows in general and the Windows Command
 > Line Inerface. In the CLI of Windows 10, the default is still CP850.

Understood. Here it still looks like it is CP437.

 NB>>  As for Linux, ISO-8859-1 may have been popular at some
 NB>> point, but these days most distributions are installed with UTF-8
 NB>> as the default (which is a good thing, IMO).

 > Also for he CLI? That is relevant since most Fidonet sowwtare is still
 > CLI based.

Mainly for the CLI, yes. And that is why I chose what I did so that most, if not all of my CLI based Fidonet software works with UTF-8 and IPv6. If it didn't at first, it definitely does now! ;)

Regards,
Nick

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