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 Message 1124 
 August Abolins to Nick Boel 
 which is why I built my own.. 
 28 Dec 25 11:58:00 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 27dc8051
REPLY: 1:154/10 69513d2a
PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: -0500
Hello Nick!

** On Sunday 28.12.25 - 08:11, you wrote:

 NB> If you're still referring to OpenXP here, I'm not sure if
 NB> there has been any more development lately or not (or if
 NB> there ever will be), but last time I checked, the Linux
 NB> version still didn't support utf-8.

The latest one seems to be Feb 2025:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/files/OpenXP%205.0/


 NB> Winpoint did a little bit better, but still wasn't 100%,
 NB> and well, it's Windows only, so that's already a huge
 NB> limitation.

It thought Win-anything was going to be my final approach to  
this messaging hobby, but I actually grew quite fond of the  
text-based OpenXP.


 NB> I had mentioned a bug in how it handles time and UTC
 NB> offsets upwards of 1-2 (or more, time flies these days)
 NB> years ago, got a reply that it would be looked into, and
 NB> nothing ever came of it.

I recall something re a time issue.  But was there an  
acknowledgement? ..or just an excuse?

What's the big deal with UTF-8 in FTN anyway?  Do we need utf-8  
emojiis in these messages?

As-is, my font [Lucinda console] & charset supports French,  
Spanish, Norwegian, and few others.
-- 
  ../|ug

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