Document: FSC-0050 Version: 001 Date: 14-Jul-90 A Character Set Identifier For FidoNet Message Editors Draft I Thomas Sundblom 2:201/114@fidonet Status of this document: This FSC suggests a proposed protocol for the FidoNet(r) community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this document is unlimited. Fido and FidoNet are registered marks of Tom Jennings and Fido Software. Purpose This document should serve as a guide for the character set identifier, CHARSET hereafter, format for FidoNet message Editors. The purpose behind CHARSET is related to my attempt to make it easier for each reader of a FidoNet message to identify the characters used in the messages. Since FidoNet messages aren't restricted to use any special character sets in the messages, there will be differences between computer kinds and special country dependent characters. To avoid confusion in such cases, I'm hereby introducing the CHARSET kludge. There is no need that each FidoNet Message reader should be able to understand every possible character set. If the reader can't handle the special character set found in a message, then it should use a default character set (as most readers do today). Format ^aCHARSET: Sample ^aCHARSET: ISO-11 Would identify that the message is written using the ISO-11 character set, which relates to the character set mainly used in Sweden. Supported character sets No special character set is specified, but it is recomended to use the ISO numbering of the different character sets. Where no ISO number is available, an easy to understand code should by used. Character set identifier examples ISO-6 Relates to plain ASCII 7 bit character set. ISO-11 Swedish character set, 7 bit. ISO-21 Germany character set, 7 bit. ISO-69 French character set, 7 bit. Other character set identifiers could be PC-8 IBM PC complete character set. ATARI ATARI ST complete character set AMIGA AMIGA complete character set