[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Earl Needham]

I'm wondering if this isn't tied to the character set selected in the OS rather than the client. Is that right?

And as for UTF-8 -- it sounds like a dream com true, if each different character set displays as it should without affecting any of the others, albeit with some amount of overhead in the form of more bytes-per-character. 

Seems to me all the discussion, whether heated or not, could be put down as "growing pains" as APRS expands from mostly an American operation to a mostly English-speaking operation to a truly international operation. This might indicate that it's time to consider version 2 of the spec in order to include everybody. 

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Earl

------Original Message------
From: Keith VE7GDH
Sender: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
ReplyTo: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS
Sent: Sep 22, 2009 07:15

Chris G4HYG wrote...

> I've sent a message to you with six Finnish characters sent using APRS 
> Messenger on a Windows laptop set to the Finnish language. I got an 
> ack via the Igate so I think you should have it on your machine.
>
> The characters display OK with APRS Messenger when digipeated back 
> from the IGate but don't display correctly on the Igate PC using 
> UI-View (Windows English language).
>
> Looks like it confirms what Matti was saying yesterday.

I received your messages and replied. Sorry about the typo (Finish 
instead of Finnish!) in my reply. I somehow replied to G4HYG instead of 
to OH2KKU-2 (it's early here!) and didn't get an ACK. You can see a 
screenshot of the UI-View message window at...

www.ui-view.org/~files/UTF-8_Messages.jpg

PS - your email to the APRS SIG is a bit of a pain in my email client. 
There is no visible text. I always have to "view message properties - 
details - message source - maximize" to see the text. Your APRS messages 
are easier to read - hi!

73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
--
"I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"


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