[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Chris Moulding]

I confirm that string of six Finnish characters was what I originally sent.

73s,

Chris, G4HYG

Chris Moulding
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Keith VE7GDH wrote:
> Stephen WA8LMF wrote...
>
>> However the mailing list post renders the Finnish characters
>> correctly, while the "scand chars" are reproducing as "garbage" here
>> (in a UTF-8-compliant email client). My guess is that somewhere, an
>> email client was set wrong that mangled the header of the Scandinavian
>> string so that it wasn't recognized correctly as UTF-8.
>
> The screenshot should show exactly what I saw in the UI-View message
> window. When I had copied and pasted it into my email posting, I thought
> the "ÅåÖöÄä" looked correct as shown in a recent example on the list
> here. My assumption is that the UTF-8 characters showed up here as
> transmitted, but the font used in the UI-View message window showed
> them as "hieroglyphics".
>
> 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> -- 
> "I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
>
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