[arachne] UTF-8

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I've been seeing a lot more UTF-8 encoding on Usenet in particular, but some in e-mail as well. I suppose ASCII, ISO, and Windows character sets may hold on for a while longer, but the trend is definitely toward UTF.
In looking around at apps that can "do" Unicode (composing as well as displaying), I ran across a very DOS-look app called mined 2000. Come to find out, it is available for DOS. 

     "For character encoding support, mined has the design philosophy of
     having everything on board so that e.g. CJK display and input methods
     run "out of the box" without any extra configuration and without
     depending on the operating system environment."
Sounds good, right? And it is... unless you want to run it in an xterm and copy'n'paste to another app. Your normal text highlighting doesn't work in an xterm running mined.
I may still play with it some, but for my purposes, an app that allows copy'n'paste (like gucharmap, for instance) is much more useful, but for anyone needing to compose using UTF-8 in DOS, this might be just the thing, 

http://www.towo.net/mined/
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