[aprssig] Future Concept for APRS

[Sergej]

Hello, Matti.

> Please do give us motivation to develop the two-way messaging.
> Currently APRS-1.0.1 protocol says:  US-ASCII, 7-BIT CHARACTERS.
> For us that is completely inadequate.

> I am now writing in an approximation of English, but when talking with
> other local people, I use my native language, which requires a bunch of
> characters outside the US-ASCII.

Yes same is here, we can't messaging using Cyrillic chars, because its
8Bit ASCII table part chars. Most of people here don't luck to
type Cyrillic by Latin equivalent (or approximation) and its making APRS
messaging difficult for Cyrillic regions too.
(for example in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria etc)

Will be enough 8bit chars set to include regional subsets.
But for Chinese or Japan hams possible UTF-x encoding is better?


73, Sergej
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