[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS (was: Future Concept for APRS)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Robert Bruninga wrote:

>> One caution - we need to define max
>> message length in BYTES not characters!
>
> I disagree completely.  Designers need to now how big to make
> displays, and displays display characters, not bytes.  So the
> message and text length should cleary NOT be in bytes, but in
> characters.  That was the intent of the original length limits.

Which means a 256 character message could take 256 bytes in ASCII,
256, 512, 768, or 1024 bytes in UTF-8 (1 to 4 bytes per char).

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