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Hey Nick!

 > What are they probing and scanning for?

It's varied over the last year from internal bleeding to potential cancerous
polyps.  The latest scan (ultrasound) showed a polyp on my gall bladder which
will need to be checked out.  So far anything they've found has proved to be
benign or cauterized in the case of internal bleeding.  No real fix yet and I
have to get blood transfusions far too often.  :-(

 > A quick look at Wikipedia states that Windows has been using UTF-16
 > since Windows 2000, and didn't support UTF-8 in it's API until 2019.

Whoa!  Seems to me that they were recommending UTF-8 adoption further back
than 2019.  Not having anything to do with MS products I can only account for
what I've heard through the grapevine over the years.

 > Does my new tagline sway your decision on that?

Somewhat but I believe my decision is/was based on any dealings we've had over
the years.

 > When is the last time you actually listed files on a BBS?

Somewhere around 1995-ish.

 > I can use a UTF-8 enabled Putty client with proper settings to
 > telnet and it displays pretty good (CP437 and UTF-8), though.

I started using tmux to take care of display issues that I used to use
setserial for.  DOS-think based ansi art and the such now works much better
but I haven't tried setting the terminal's character set to cp437 yet and
logging onto a regular BBS with it ... yet.  I'll try yours later once I have
a tmux terminal set to a proper DOS-think configuration.

 > The incessant need for fancy emojis, maybe?

That sounds about right.

Life is good,
Maurice

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