[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Kai Gunter Brandt]

Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> 
>> When I have time, I will make a messsaging robot with which you can try
>> to see example byte sequences from RFC 3629 (Internet STD 63), alias:
> 
> 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 first two messages are sort of a joke, since both of those messages
> are both ASCII and UTF-8. There is no difference.
> 
> It's a bit simple, just threw it together quickly, so it doesn't do
> things like retrying message transmission. It does send message IDs and
> it does respond with an ack to incoming messages.
> 
>   - Hessu
> 

Does not display correct on my TM-D710

But it do display ÆØÅ and æøå when sending from TeraTermPro to a TM-D710
in APRS mode: www.scannernytt.info/LA3QMA/letters.jpg
So it should be possible to get a result.

äö and ÄÖ is not used in Norway but it's readable

Kai Gunter
LA3QMA