Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri May 14 2021 11:13 am

Hello Carlos,

On Friday May 14 2021 07:13, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,S?ve,Björn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V34
 MvdV>>                 ^
 CN>                              ^
 CN> Not only the ä in Säve, but also the ö in Björn is mangled.

Yes. The routuine only checks for /lines/ that are incorrect. So it stops when one faulty character is found.

 CN> Looks like both characters are ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.

Yes, it is Latin-1. A hobby horse of the sysop in question. He believes that instead of using UTF-8 it would be better if every sysop can choose his own encoding for his line(s).

In the ASCII nodelist these two characters are replaced by a question mark.


Cheers, Michiel
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