Chinese PSK31

[Alex Fraser]

Thanks, I will try some of the other modes and see what happens.

> 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
> kw4ep
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:28 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net 
> <mailto: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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