[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS
Curt, WE7U
archer at eskimo.com
Tue Sep 22 17:55:29 EDT 2009
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Heikki Hannikainen 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)
Xastir displayed the first two ok but messed up the other two. No
surprises here as it's not UTF-8 aware either. The good news is
that it can be fixed.
Thanks for putting this up!
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