$ Nicholas Boel mentioned . .
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> On 05 Feb 14 12:53, Michael Griffin wrote to all:
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>  MG> Hi All,
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>  MG> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zf1t83&s=8
>  MG> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=qravkx&s=8
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> Looking great Mike!

Thank you Nick!  I've pretty excited to get this rolled out soon to the bbs
for everyone to use.  

$ Nicholas Boel mentioned . .
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> I don't use much Zmodem these days, so telnetting from a UTF-8 only console
> over here will definitely be something to look forward to! Can't wait to ch
> it out!

There will be plenty of testing to do once it's ready to go.  I know most
characters seem to translate well in the process.  However, the challenge will
be to figure out the best set of Fonts that display the most accurate
High-Ascii characters.  Fixed-size fonts seem to do the best job.  However, 
at high resolutions they make everything a bit small if you keep the 80x25
aspect ratio.  And fonts that resize seem to have lines and spaces between
characters.  So it's a trade off right now.

The best I've seen so far have been in straight Linux console off Arch Linux. 
The default VGA 80x25 seems to display everything perfectly!   Although, I
have noticed some spacing that appears to be off on certain character here and
there.  So it's possible a single character is not getting translated or one
that is, is not displaying properly with its Unicode variant and those small
anomalies will be some work to track down. 

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