• Castle Anthrax

    From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001.2989 to Zoot on Thu Mar 14 04:17:52 2024
    Hey Zoot!

    An excerpt from page 37 of "Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen (Bøk)";

    I'm afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared with yours. We are but eightscore young blondes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in is castle, with no-one to protect us. Ooooh. It is a lonely life ... bathing ... dressing ... undressing ... making exciting underwear ...

    Word wrapped to 72 bytes with 5 byte indentation;

    I'm afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared with yours.
    We are but eightscore young blondes, all between sixteen and
    nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in is castle, with no-one to protect us.
    Ooooh. It is a lonely life ... bathing ... dressing ... undressing ...
    making exciting underwear ...

    Translated to Russian with 72 columns of utf8 text and 5 byte indentation;

    Боюсь, наша жизнь должна показаться очень скучной и тихой по сравнению
    с вашей. Мы всего лишь восемьдесят молодых блондинок, всем от
    шестнадцати до девятнадцати с половиной лет, отрезанные от мира в своем
    замке, и никто не может нас защитить. Оооо. Это одинокая жизнь...
    купание... одевание... раздевание... изготовление захватывающего
    нижнего белья...

    Same as above except 72 bytes instead of columns (characters);

    Боюсь, наша жизнь должна показаться
    очень скучной и тихой по сравнению с
    вашей. Мы всего лишь восемьдесят
    молодых блондинок, всем от шестнадцати
    до девятнадцати с половиной лет,
    отрезанные от мира в своем замке, и
    никто не может нас защитить. Оооо. Это
    одинокая жизнь... купание... одевание...
    раздевание... изготовление
    захватывающего нижнего белья...

    utf8 with multibyte columns is obviously superior but is only apparent to those who are truly capable.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

    o- o- -o o- -o o- o- -o -o o- o- -o -o -o o- o- /) /) (\ /) (\ /) /) (\ (\ /) /) (\ (\ (\ /) /) ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ... Fidonet 4K - You load sixteen penguins and what do you get?
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/6 to Maurice Kinal on Fri Mar 15 01:13:50 2024
    On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:17:52 GMT
    "Maurice Kinal -> Zoot" <2989@7001.153.1> wrote:

    Translated to Russian with 72 columns of utf8 text and 5 byte indentation;

    Боюсь, наша жизнь должна показаться очень скучной и тихой по сравнению
    с вашей. Мы всего лишь восемьдесят молодых блондинок, всем от

    Indent seems to be ok.

    Same as above except 72 bytes instead of columns (characters);

    Боюсь, наша жизнь должна показаться
    очень скучной и тихой по сравнению с
    вашей. Мы всего лишь восемьдесят
    молодых блондинок, всем от шестнадцати

    Looks fine.

    utf8 with multibyte columns is obviously superior but is only apparent
    to those who are truly capable.

    Maybe the UTF-8 echo would be best for these tests.

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  • From Maurice Kinal@2:280/464.113 to August Abolins on Fri Mar 15 00:18:46 2024
    Hej August!

    Maybe the UTF-8 echo would be best for these tests.

    If I was looking to restrict tests to ONLY utf8 then I'd agree. I started the latest tests wrt creating little endian data for the headers (pkt and msg) using bash and only got sidetracked when discovering potential bugs regarding utf8 characters and word wrapping, especially right-to-left languages such as Hebrew.

    This particular echoarea looks to be far less restrictive in scope which I believe is a plus in it's favour as the proper place for the usage of linux apps in today's complex and diverse network known as Fidonet ... or what is left of it.

    Het leven is goed,
    Maurice

    o- -o -o o-
    /) (\ (\ /)
    ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
    ... Fidonet 1080p - De vier pinguïns van de Apocalyps
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