[aprssig] Please, standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Stephen H. Smith]

Sergej wrote:
> Well, looking on to the Stephen's test, we can summ up, that
> none of clients, which was marked in his test not able to manage
> regional sets of UTF-8 characters. I am not surprised and
> I foresaw that...
>
> However, pay attention that service of Findu.com represented all
> correctly! It means, that fortunately APRS-IS is 8 bits
> transporent system!
>
> Remains to check, whether there will not be problems at use
> of UTF-8 with TNC's in KISS and terminal modes?!
>
> 73, Sergej
> uz2hz
>
>   

The RF test I did with a KPC3+ was in KISS mode and created no problems 
(other than that the client couldn't display it). There was no problem 
with the TNC locking up or crashing.     


However, I had no easy means of trying to SEND a non-English 
UTF-8-encoded message through the TNC.   I would assume that the TNC 
would be more likely to see false escape sequences (and then do wierd 
things like locking up) in traffic coming from the terminal rather than 
in traffic from the RF side.


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