[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Robert Bruninga]

> And programmers need to know what 
> size buffers to allocate. 

That's pretty easy.  Multiply the number of bytes per character
by the number of characters.

> The protocol shouldn't dictate the user interface [length of
characters]...

Tell that to twitter...

Bob, Wb4APR


> 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