Re: Encodings according to fts-5003.001
By: Nil Alexandrov to Rob Swindell on Sat Feb 24 2024 07:55 pm
Hello, Rob!
Saturday February 24 2024 15:43, from Rob Swindell -> Nil Alexandrov:
Your default charset may vary from CP437 AKA ASCII, AKA AMIGA,
CP850 AKA
(albeit FTS-5003.001 says ASCII),
AKA CP437.
I'm sure others will correct you too, but ASCII is *not* AKA CP437.
My bad, CP437 AKA extended-ASCII. I actually like this topic of different encoding according to fts-5003. IMHO, the supported level field of CHRS kludge is pretty much useless and might be ignored by software cause the identifier aka charset name itself includes the details of how it is sent over the wire. BTW, can we do UTF-16? UTF-32? Level makes no sense.
Indeed, Synchronet/SBBSecho igores the "level" part of the FTN CHRS kludge value and there's been no apparent harm. :-)
I don't think UTF-16 or UTF-32 is supported in FTN. Nor should it be, IMHO.
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