[Dxspider-support] Corrupt display on console.pl

[Dirk Koopman]

And as I mentioned utf8, I should explain what DXSpider does with it. 
Historically comments are munged so that utf8 is removed. Or to be more 
accurate, any non-ascii (7 bit latin-1 characters ) have that top bit 
removed. Also any utf8 markers are also removed.

I have wondered,  for at least the last ten years, whether I should just 
go utf8 for ALL (user) input.  There's not a simple answer and it may 
simply be impossible with so many nodes out there that refuse to update. 
The only possible solution MAY  (no promises) be to not munge valid utf8 
comments from originating users and to allow valid utf8 in PC61s 
(hopefully the automatic preference for PC61 over PC11, if a node gets a 
choice, still works correctly ;-). But one may well, still, get this 
sort of gibberish if utf8 goes out to non-DXSpider nodes and then comes 
in again from somewhere else. PC61/PC11 deduplication will need work to 
cope with this as well.

Comments and suggestions will be carefully considered.

I feel a small, targetted, development window coming on.

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 25/02/2024 16:01, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> I am wondering whether this is some very long comment in pure UTF8 in 
> a (very) non-latin1 language. It would be interesting to see something 
> from the debug log around this entry to see what is going on.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 25/02/2024 13:08, Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> I was seeing the following on one of my cluster consoles this morning...
>>
>> DX de VE1FSM: 14333.0 M7CUW   뮶D ..Y... <6K N .> . S. P.. Vޭ.[J   N" 
>> 8 ..*  }.   "G /..   .
>>                 87 ..ۺ1{V.   .R    ..  53 7 .    A ..  .3.XJ'.. .`. 6 
>> .C  2 0"... ..,.J.   F;..   1..  C
>>               ).U) .G! 1238Z NS
>>
>> It happens on one of my cluster nodes, not on the other and only on 
>> call M7CUW. A show/dx M7CUW displays correctly. Ideas?
>>
>
>
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