[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Curt, WE7U]

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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