🚀 go-pugleaf

In article  <20071009.1956.71006059snz$@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>
           v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint. at IMT" writes:

>   - hi; in dipspc article, <1191428399snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
>             pete@nospam.demon.co.uk marvelled [0]:
[..]
> >[utf-8 stuff]
> >>>>    - um, any update on the ease (or otherwise) of tackling
> >>>>    this [] awaited with interest (but i cannot promise bated
> >>>>    breath).
> >>>
> >>>Still "work in progress"[].  I might get to take a look this w/e 
[..]
> >>      [..] an occasional dribblet of news, or else the periodic
> >>      "nothing yet" from time to time... ;-)
> >
> >Well.  There is a teensy-weensy problem: the Unicode characters 
> >were (I thought) 16-bit, but it appears that they are getting 
> >wider than that.  But no matter; even 64K characters are beyond 
> >the capability of DOS -- where we have only 256 at a time :-(
> >
> >However, all is not lost.  I've thrown together some ugly^H^H^H^H
> >elegant code which pretends that "charset=UTF-8" is "charset=ISO-
> >8859-1" (which is I guessed what most of us Eurotypes are interested
> >in) and mapped the common Unicode punctuation code points (U+2000 to 
> >U+206F) to the nearest ASCII displayable equivalent.  Everything 
> >else gets mapped to an inverted question mark ('�' or U+00BF).  
> >Seems to work, where "work" is relative rather than absolute :)
> 
>         - "it's doing something, captain - but we're not entirely
>         sure what..." - ?
> 
> >At least it renders the article slightly more readable, and 
> >consumes only a few hundred bytes of memory.  If there is anyone 
> >maintaining the JLW Snews (are you listening, John?) who would 
> >like to see my code with a view to implementing it, just let me 
> >know. [My Snews is based on an earlier GeK version and is so 
> >different from the JLW one that this task might not be as 
> >straightforward as a copy&paste job...]

Well, I took the metaphoric bull by the proverbials and had a go 
at applying my mods to the latest JW version I could find, and 
emailed the result to your good self.

Judging by the ensuing silence, I guess you didn't receive it? 
I think I made the required changes to your email correctly...

Pete
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