[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Keith VE7GDH]

Bob N2KGO wrote...

> If modifying the standard to allow UTF-8 doesn't impact communications
> in English-speaking countries, I don't personally see a huge issue
> with it, even if the D700 and friends display garbage when trying to
> interpret a multi-byte character.

So far, no-one on the APRS SIG has sent a message to VE7GDH-10 (UI-View)
since my posting, whether in "Eng;ish / ASCII" or "UTF-8 / English /
looks like ASCII" or "UTF-8 multi-byte characters". Maybe there aren't
any clients out there (yet?) that can send in UTF-8.

73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
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