Chinese PSK31

[Jacek Radzikowski]

International characters shown on web pages use Unicode character encoding.
There are several formats of Unicode encodings, but all of them require
that all 8 bits from each byte are transmitted. Even truncating bytes to 7
bits to squeeze them in 7-bit ASCII will make the text undecodable.
PSK31 uses an alphabet with a limited set of characters. Without an
additional processing (e.g. converting to base64) there should be no
reliable way to transmit Unicode text using default text encoding. However,
it should be possible if the software does some kind of re-encoding
internally, and can transparently transmit binary messages.

Jacek
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:28 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> I set up a Linux machine with FLdigi and a shortwave rig with a BFO on it
> so I could copy the side band audio. The Chinese characters didn't go
> through.  I messed around with the encoding choices in the FLdigi
> configuration.  There is one encoding choice named "Chinese" which I gave a
> try on both transmit and receive rigs.  Still no joy.  Thing is I was using
> Google translate to create the Chinese characters and I have no idea what
> they use to encode the translation.  漢字編碼 as you can see I can copy and
> paste to my email client, but so far I can't get the characters to fly
> through the sky on radio waves....
> On 11/26/2020 2:33 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>
> I was fooling around with FLdigi today.  I wondered if I could send
> Chinese via PSK31.  I went to Google translate and created a short message,
> copied the characters and pasted them into the transmit box in FLdigi.  It
> seemed to work, but I will have to setup another machine with FLdigi to
> confirm it actually gets sent.   I guess I could try Russian and Hebrew
> while I'm at it. Babble on Babylon....
>
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