[Ham-Linux] Proposal for coding in UTF-8

[kd4e]

Is this also compatible with CQRlog as well?
(Linux, MS, and maybe Apple, not sure.)

Pino Zollo wrote:
> Hi de ZP4KFX
> 
> I propose to include into the standard the following tag for the header:
> 
> <ENCODING:5>UTF-8 
> 
> ENCODING can be absent or can be <ENCODING:10>ISO-8859-1
> 
> This is already implemented in my DBLog...see http://www.qsl.net/zp4kfx/Linux
> 
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/zp4kfx/Linux/TestUTF8.html
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/zp4kfx/Linux/DBLog/Shot-QSO%20List-utf8-%20test.png
> 
> DBLog works on Linux and stores data's on PosgreSQL, both of which are UTF-8 
> compliant.
> 
> DBLog can export both in ISO-8859-1 or in UTF-8.
> 
> Importing, if it  finds into the header <ENCODING:5>UTF-8  then does not do 
> any coversion.
> If it  finds  <ENCODING:10>ISO-8859-1 or no ENCODING tag, then converts into 
> UTF-8.
> 
> The difference is mainly for the accented vowels (from 128 to 256) that come 
> mainly by N1MM or Logger32 ADIF files.
> 
> Also other loggers could follow this method or be aware of the ENCODING tag to 
> avoid errors.
> 
> Best 73 de
> 
> Pino ZP4KFX
> 

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