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ZCT232 seems distant enough to sign up with confidence

If afullo agrees, you can swap with him for next month You would have a whole 10 days to prepare the track!

Lol

Welcome back Zak! Btw, my track is ready since before the lockdown...

Lol. I still had 56/33.6 at the time. Then 2048/256 in 2006, 7168/384 in 2008, 7168/512 in 2010, 20480/1024 in 2018. But I can upload much faster than 1024 by using mobile phone connection, although data are monthly limited. 

When I registered back in 2014, something about opponents was asked; I had to open the game and check. By the way, welcome aboard! 

If you can later try it on true-Windows, let me know what you get

I tried also on (real) Windows 7, same issue.

One thing that Windows users will have anyway is that, when Bliss loads a track and the metadata is already written in it, it will correctly display both in the program window and on the window title... I expect. That can also be checked by using the split-file text mode.

I can try to create a track with Linux, to name it with accents, and to finally load it in Windows. As soon as I will be possibilitated, I'll do it. 

Anyway, thank you for testing.

I'm glad to be of some help. 

Which version did you play as latest? Unfortunately its development sharply slowened after mid-2008, with only three more subversions released so far in different years.

In the meantime, if anybody else can test on another Windows computer or with another version, that'd be cool (with Wine, it'd also be interesting to know). If it works with Wine, but not with Windows, I'm afraid I'll have to drop special character typing support under Windows (of course, UTF-8 file reading and storage will be available) because I'm not willing to install Windows any more, ha, ha.

I just tried with both Wine and Vineyard (W&V): same behaviour as with Windows 10, even by trying to reproduce Windows 98 (do I have to try with even older versions?). Furthermore, insertions with Alt do not work, but this is because W&V are not emulators, but rather compatibility layers, so you are basically running a Windows applicative under a Linux environment.

On the native front, I have also a partition with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, but I don't keep it in a very good shape, so it is really slow to boot; anyway, I can give it a try in the next few days.

By the way, Ultimate Stunts hit at the beginning of 2017 version 0.7.8: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimatestunts/

- For characters not showing exactly the same, but as an approximation, that should be OK. It's expected. I will later on add something to fix even that. But for now, you can see files should be stored with the right values and the window title will probably support more characters than the program text.

Ok, on Ubuntu I was able to insert À, È, É, Ì, Ò, Ù and display them correctly on the window title, although not on the program text. But, as you said, it is expected; furthermore, in Italian you can use È to start a sentence with the third person present of the verb "to be", but there aren't many chances to use another accented vowel as the first letter unless you have to specify accentuation for diction purposes, since excluding that case only the last letter of a word can bring an accent (È is a particular case, being a single-letter word), so they are of some use only by writing in caps lock; see the attached screenshot.

- For keys not responding at all and not even causing a 254 filled box to appear, I'm concerned. It might make sense if these are dead keys (keys that require you to type a second key to compose a character, such as the grave accent key), but otherwise, all character keys should be supported. If you find that a particular key that normally issues a character does not respond, please tell me which so I can analyse the situation.

On Windows, all the keys that are meant to issue respectively à, è, é, ì, ò, ù do not respond; they are not dead keys, since the character is composed by pressing a single key.

Thank you, pal.

You are welcome! 

Anybody could test Bliss UTF-8 support on a Windows machine?

Bad news: I just tried with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, but I am unable to insert accents at all via dedicated keys (those between P, L and Enter). 

Some insertions with Alt do work, albeit without any diacritical mark (e.g., Alt+0200 should return È, instead it returns E), but other ones do not (Alt+0201 should return É, but it returns nothing).

On Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit, I just tried to give a track a title containing all the Italian accents, i.e. vowels with diacritical marks (à, è, é, ì, ò, ù). It seems all of them are displayed correctly, as the attached screenshot shows.

Good! Except that... we did not win the team competition, although here it seems so (maybe it won't get updated after quiet replays publishing and scoreboard confirmation?). The seasonal table reports how Cork's Crew won all the first five races.

By the way, they do exist test sentences in Hungarian using all the special wovels, like these ones.

In English, there is a well-known sentence that contains all leters only once each:
The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog

In Spanish, we don't have such, or not that I know of, but we do have a more or less known palindrome sentence that goes like this:
Dábale arroz a la zorra, el abad
It means more or less: Giving rice to the (female) fox, was the monk

It'd be interesting to get to know more things like those in other languages.

In Italian:

I topi non avevano nipoti (The mice had not nephews/nieces [or grandchildrens, it is used for both])
Ai lati d'Italia (At sides of Italy)

I regret not to have ever played USC seriously. My laps in 2014/15 were essentially scoreboard fillers. 

Indeed, I placed 9th...