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GM7HUD > HELP 27.11.05 17:28l 44 Lines 2010 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : F03025GM7HUD
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: Suffix 2 again.
Path: DB0FHN<DB0MRW<DB0WUE<DK0WUE<7M3TJZ<ZL2BAU<GB7ESX
Sent: 051127/1145z @:GB7ESX.#31.GBR.EU #:67051 $:F03025GM7HUD [Witham, Esx]NNA
VK3ABK wrote:-
> Can someone send a comment on the use of ^2
> which seems to be prefered
Welcome to the world of font incompatibility. :-)
If you treat packet as essentially a 7-bit medium and only use ASCII
characters you don't get into these problems.
That makes the use of ^2 a more sensible choice as it will print as you
intend it on all software. The use of characters above 127 is not really
wise as you cannot be sure that the remote end will be using the same font.
Packet doesn't have any means of specifying the font to display with, so if
you want what you write to be readable throught the world, stick to 7bit
ASCII.
This is hard on non-English languages which have additional characters
outside of the 7bit ASCII set. But that is the problem of using a 26 year
old transport medium designed by Americans for use on 26 year old dumb
terminals in an international environment. And I'm not blaming the American
originators. 26 years ago, localisation for non-English alphabets just
wasn't near the front on English/US software writers.
Having spent the last 2 years writing software for mobile phones that has
to work with both European languages and Korean, Japanese and Simplified
Chinese, I can tell you it's a complete nightmare getting anything to work
as expected everywhere in the world. Just about every device/language/softwa
re implementation makes some local shortcuts due to shortsightedness of the
local designers that makes true pan-world support a real PITA.
So until packet datastreams have the ability to transparently embed the
font specification or font data, and start using Unicode instead of ASCII,
we'll have confusion now and then.
> Now I find that bulletins from VK2ZRG, DF3VI, GM7HUD, and G0TEZ, all show
> the same thing. Each bulletin is Titled E= mc squared with the 2 in the
It doesn't show as superscript 2 on my version on Winpack. However, as I
have cut and pasted the string you sent, the same character should still be
being used.
73 de Andy GM7HUD
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