[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Scott Miller]

And programmers need to know what size buffers to allocate.  The 
protocol shouldn't dictate the user interface.  It's the fault of the 
display system if there's no provision to scroll and see more than so 
many characters.

Scott
N1VG

Robert Bruninga wrote:
>> One caution - we need to define max 
>> message length in BYTES not characters!
> 
> I disagree completely.  Designers need to now how big to make
> displays, and displays display characters, not bytes.  So the
> message and text length should cleary NOT be in bytes, but in
> characters.  That was the intent of the original length limits.
> 
> Bob, Wb4APR
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