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|    Maurice Kinal to Daniel Path    |
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|    05 Nov 23 17:17:19    |
      REPLY: 2:371/52@fidonet 6547c943       MSGID: 2:280/464.113 6547ce1f       CHRS: UTF-8 4       Hey Daniel!               DP> 90%              100% from this angle.               DP> i don't really see non-ascii characters only '?'              If by non-ascii you mean 8-bit (int128 to int255) then I get the same result       except with utf-8 characters that I lack fonts for, such as Chinese, as well       as (int128 to int255) which will corrupt a purely utf-8 text msg. They can't       be mixed without having to alter the msg in question which is something I       won't do.               DP> anyways now you can see it              All the utf-8 characters survived the experiment which is excellent behavior       methinks. Thank you.              Het leven is goed,       Maurice              -o -o -o -o        (\ (\ (\ (\        ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^       ... Come and see the violence inherent in the system.       --- GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint @ (2:280/464.113)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 80/1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 123/131       SEEN-BY: 124/5016 129/305 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1       SEEN-BY: 218/601 700 840 860 870 880 930 221/0 1 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 400 426 428 452 470 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111 292/8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 301/113 305/3 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 1042       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 280/464 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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