[aprssig] Unicode in APRS messages

[Robert Bruninga]

I thnk the D72 and maybe the D710 Kenwoods also support UTF-8


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Andrew P. <andrewemt at hotmail.com> wrote:

> YAAC supports UTF8 and Unicode, and I18N (internationalization); if the
> user types in a message string using characters not in the base 7-bit ASCII
> character set, YAAC will send it as UTF8, and decode received UTF8 properly
> (callsigns are restricted to 7-bit ASCII due to the AX.25 specification).
> Note that this should even work if you are using AGWPE as the TNC for YAAC
> (since YAAC is what is actually rendering the strings, not the AGWPE server
> daemon).
>
> Alas, I don't speak any other languages well enough to actually create the
> alternate localized (L8N) prompt string files for YAAC. :-(
>
> Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO
> author of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client")
> http://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:10:19 +0200
> > From: info at sartrack.co.nz
> > To: aprssig at tapr.org
> > Subject: [aprssig] Unicode in APRS messages
> >
> > I am currently adding internationalisation to my SARTrack program (
> > http://www.sartrack.co.nz ), and have volunteers in various countries
> > doing translations for me.
> >
> > Up to this point, I never attempted to use Unicode for APRS messaging
> > during transfer via APRS servers.
> >
> > I have now added UTF8 encoding/decoding to the TCP interface... And this
> > works perfectly when I use my own program, while testing on a 'aprsc'
> > based server. Russian and other languages with 'funny' characters now
> > come out correctly on the other side.
> >
> > However, when I tested it with the APRS client 'AGWTracker', garbage
> > came out.
> >
> > I would like to know how other APRS clients deal with this issue, and
> > what Encoding (if any) is being used to transfer Unicode APRS packets
> > over TCPIP.
> > And how this type of data is dealt with, when it must be transfered over
> > the radio, as this is obviousely ASCII/ANSI based...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bart ZL4FOX / PA2FOX
> >
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> >
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