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On Fri, 3 May 2024 01:05:00 GMT, Maurice Kinal -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 MK> It works for me so far but I haven't done all that much with it.

What FTN apps are you actually trying to use?

 MK> Sometimes but currently using latarcyrheb-sun32 which has more than
 MK> enough coverage for fidonet in it's current atate of being.  The only
 MK> trouble I have is with proper word wrapping Arabic and Hebrew.  Also
 MK> with all the 24-bit character languages (Chinese et al) there are zero
 MK> compatible terminal fonts, but have only seen one posting in Chinese in
 MK> the last decade by someone that hacked a Apple app on his smartphone.

My current situation is only accessing all of my Linux VMs with PuTTY. So I'm
not able to change the actual consolefont. However, PuTTY's fonts support
quite a bit, maybe even more than most of the consolefonts.

 MK> If needed I'd swich to a gui where there are more choices font-wise but
 MK> definetly stick with vim ... with all the gui goodness turned on of
 MK> course.  As things stand today we're far beyond what is truly supported
 MK> by the CHRS kludge, not counting the bogus ones such as LATIN-1.

Whaaaaat? Maurice using a gui? That's unheard of! :)

 MK> ... Gemæne sceal maga feoh.
 MK>     Wealth should be shared by kinsmen.

I think I've found where you got these from, as I saw this one and the one
prior when I copy and pasted one back to you. Did you just randomize all 48
from that site?

Regards,
Nick

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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