Subj : You're welcome.
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Tue Aug 30 2022 08:39:37

08 Aug 2022 12:25, you wrote to me:

 SM>>> I have not tested, but should support.

 CN>> Can you test with UTF-8? Or perhaps with CP437? IMO any of those
 CN>> would be better than CP866 for non Russian speaking echos.

 SM> For Russian-speaking echo, the CP866 is a standard, fixed by the rules
 SM> in many of them. We do not have UTF-8 Russian language echo.

Yes, I had noticed that (or I read it somewhere).

In R34/ESP echos there has never been a standard. Ages ago people used CP437 (most), LATIN-1 (many) and CP850. Now we also have UTF-8. Kind of babel tower. :-) But even with the mangled characters, Spanish is mostly readable.

In the 90s many of us usually wrote *incorrect* Spanish using ASCII only (no accented vocals and other symbols) to avoid these issues.

I guess you couldn't do that with the cyrillic alphabet... ;-)

 CN>> If not this echo, I suppose that ESP.ARGENTINA would be a good
 CN>> place to test. Accented vocals and other Spanish chars are
 CN>> transformed into question marks there...

 SM> Yes.

Another suitable echo might be ESP.PRUEBAS, the Spanish test area.

Carlos

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