Subj : "Soft CRs" and UTF-8
To   : All
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Wed Mar 08 2023 06:35 pm

FTN mail processors should not strip the so called soft CRs, or else any Unicode character that contains a 0x8D byte in its UTF-8 encoding will be broken.

This was already mentioned in Michiel's article "A plea for UTF-8 in Fidonet part 2" (FidoNews Volume 29, Number 01 - 2 Jan 2012).

Carlos

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