Subj : simply the best To : Richard Menedetter From : Maurice Kinal Date : Tue Apr 23 2019 10:19 pm Hey Richard! RM> Tina Turner is a node in Fidonet?? Not that I am aware of but I posted it to her anyhow given the subject. RM> Why was there no REPLY Kludge? It wasn't a reply. RM> If you spell Eichhörnchen like Eichhoernchen then you get away RM> with ASCII for German. But then how would I spell Björn? I suppose I could spell it Bjørn instead but then Björn might go off the rails and nobody wants that ... do they? RM> If the software supports UTF-8 Yes it does. As in the post "simply the best" it wrote German, Russian, Greek, Swedish and English. Unfortunetly the Swedish was all ascii but I have been know to post Swedish with utf8 characters in the past without any complaints. Mind you I believe it was you that had issues with one of my Swedish proverbs in the LINUX echo not too long ago. RM> and you can read/write Russian, Hebrew, Arab or Chinese They are all possible except with Chinese I'd have to move to a GUI app instead of the console. However since this is the FTSC_PUBLIC forum I believe that Hebrew, Arab and Chinese are not supported, along with almost every other language on the planet. Also I threw Greek in the post which is also not supported by the FTSC so I suppose you caught me red handed breaking with 'standards'. Oh well. Life is good, Maurice .... Don't cry for me I have vi. --- GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001) .