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

Tue Sep 22 18:38:28 EDT 2009

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

This will break D7s, I believe, which have trouble with long messages.  So
do, IIRC, several other embedded TNCs.  I'm fine with that, but I'm not sure
everyone is.  :)
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