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   mark lewis to All   
   UTF-8 Characters   
   05 Apr 22 08:59:36   
   
   From: nospam.mark.lewis@p73.f12.n3634.z1.fidonet.org   
      
    On 2022 Apr 03 19:57:50, you wrote to g00r00:   
      
    g0>> I do have a solution for that, but I think there always is going to   
    g0>> be some issue with various codepages and UTF8 only because they   
    g0>> cannot always convert between each other.   
      
    SB> I am really hoping that you can find a way to defeat this problem!   
      
   FWIW: there is no way that a ""character set"" like UTF-8 can have all of the   
   1114112 codepoints it contains converted into the mere 255 characters contained   
   in traditional codepages like CP437... there simply are not enough character   
   slots on both sides... if there were, we wouldn't need UTF-8 or all of the   
   various codepages in the first place ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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