[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

Keith VE7GDH ve7gdh at rac.ca
Tue Sep 22 13:18:30 EDT 2009


Hessu OH7LZB wrote...

> I've now set up an UTF-8 message responder. Send an APRS message to 
> the destination callsign UTF-8, and it will respond with 4 messages:
>
> 1. This message is English ASCII text.
> 2. This message is English UTF-8 text.
> 3. Finnish/Scandinavian UTF-8 chars: åäö ÅÄÖ
> 4. Japanese: 日本語 (3 chars)

The results as seen in UI-View can be seen at...

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

My "hello" in Japanese in the "sent" message didn't translate very well!

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





More information about the aprssig mailing list