On 2017 Jan 25 11:07:12, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 FB>>> I have been using Aftershock for a while now and noticed that it is
 FB>>> using CP866. Is there a way to change the code page to 437 or even
 FB>>> 850?

 BP>> it makes no sense aslong you not using chars outside of what is
 BP>> inside of that codepage

 BP>> if there would make more sense if the app would select best charset
 BP>> based on what chars is used, eq NOT make it user selected

 FB> Well, in my case my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese, so when I
 FB> write messages on it I have to forfeit the accents, otherwise the
 FB> message gets a little messy :)

i believe benny's point is that the character set used should default to the
user's locale and take into account the characters used... if your system's
locale is set to say

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8

then you would only be able to use those characters available... if you are
set to pt_BR.UTF-8, then you can use those characters... it actually makes
more sense to use the system's default locale and go from there rather than
letting the user choose something that they may not even be able to use
because of missing characters in their selected character set that can't even
be displayed by the system because they don't exist in the system's default
character set...

FWIW: as time goes on, i do actually see fidonet being dragged into the modern
world to use UTF-8 pages... generaly conversations can still easily be done
with the standard 7-bit ASCII characters as well as locale specific characters
if and when they are truly needed...

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