Subj : Vote
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nil A
Date : Sat Mar 23 2024 12:20 am

Hello, Maurice!

Saturday March 23 2024 03:35, from Maurice Kinal -> Nil Alexandrov:

 NA>> Mystic BBS has no ideas that there could be life outside of cp437
 NA>> realm.

 MK> Not too much different than the cp866 crowd.

Oops... my latest patch to GoldED source code has done the thing and deanonymized my $LANG/$LC_ALL environment variable.

FWIW, my recent tests with "KOI8-R 2" vs "CP866 2" revealed, that Z2:R50 folks are not ready to read any Cyrillic outside of DOS encoding back in 90th which is CP866.

 MK> Speaking of which, what does the cp866 crowd think about your "KOI8-R
 MK> 2"?

Well, if you stay within the true ASCII range, which is <127, you can claim any, and I repeat ANY charset aka @CHRS, including utf-8.
I'm writing in 'CP866 2' now and you are reading me well, just as an example.

 NA>> just update that fakken fta-1003

 MK> :-)  It is pretty sad that is for sure.  How come you're not running
 MK> for ftsc meembership?

The "bottle neck" is the Randy Bush's copyright on FTS-0000000000000000001 document, which is the essential onboarding material for those who are looking for the specs to write their FTN comparable s/w and it sux.

Best Regards, Nil
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