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    From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Uncle Bob on Tue Jun 25 18:05:56 2019
    Hey Uncle!

    Whatever happens to -> Ѝ, э, ҍ, Ӎ <- impacts fts-5003.001 wrt utf-8 characters, as well as 0x8d for the acceptable 8-bit character encodings of which only the iso-8859-x encodings escape this particular long standing bug of much abandonware still in use within this fine hobby.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

    ... Don't cry for me I have vi.
    --- GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
    * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)
  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001.2989 to Maurice Kinal on Tue Jun 25 18:37:29 2019
    Hey Maurice!

    I won't bother quoting back the corrupted characters, nevermind the additional linefeeds someone's tosser decided the original required. Ignoring the lame DOS-think word wrapping, it can be easily demonstrated that the 0x8d trailing bytes of the legitimate utf-8 encoded characters all got deleted from the original which *should* be sufficient evidence to suggest that there is a very serious problem.

    What exactly is the job of the FTSC?

    Life is good,
    Maurice

    ... Don't cry for me I have vi.
    --- GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (aarch64-raspi3b+-linux-gnu)
    * Origin: Little Mikey's CanadARM - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.2989)