[Dxspider-support] Corrupt display on console.pl

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

I thought about that, but it happened on three separate spots by three 
different calls, only when spotting M7CUW and only on my secondary node. 
The corruption does not happen when you show/dx M7CUW. I'm thinking 
something to do with a lookup for a tag at the end of the comment field 
getting some sort of garbage?

On 2/25/2024 12:16 PM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> 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
> 

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73 de Mike, W1NR

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