Subj : Re: WX
To   : Digital Man
From : KenDB3
Date : Tue Mar 29 2016 11:12 am

 > Right, but how does the rest of the BBS look with PuTTY set that way?
 > Probably not very good. Right now, Synchronet doesn't support any way of
 > detecting or tracking the user's character set or encoding and pretty much
 > assumes CP437. You can send UTF-8 from your script, but most clients aren't
 > going to display it correctly and there's really no way for you to know
 > which clients will or will not display it correctly.

 >                                             digital man

So, I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been rather tied up. I see what
your aiming at, and I think I'm at a bit of a disadvantage not knowing some
history. It sounds like you are trying to politely tell me that UTF-8/Unicode
is really not used in the BBS community, even outside the US. But, how do other
countries utilize special characters? Or, would it be a case where those
characters are ignored and replaced with the Non-Accented characters that are
more CP437 friendly?

I think my problem is that data is coming back from Weather Underground in
UTF-8, which is not a problem when it is in (US) English, but starts to present
a problem with the couple of Latin based languages I tried to implement. Is
there any way to clean/convert the text before displaying it?

Someone asked for this feature, and I thought it would be an easier ask than
some of the other requests I got, but it proved more challenging thanks to the
UTF-8 characters.

Any advice is welcome :-) 

~KenDB3

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