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   August Abolins to Alexander Koryagin   
   Russian text copy pasting? or more speci   
   08 Feb 20 05:32:20   
   
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   REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e3cffd8   
   PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191227   
   TID: GE/2 1.2   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   On 2/7/2020 1:12 AM, between "Alexander Koryagin : August Abolins":   
      
    AA>> .. I primarily wanted to maintain UTF-   
    AA>> 8 characters copied into your Reformator/Quoter program no   
    AA>> matter what language I encountered.   
      
    AK> Well, I ask just for interest -- can you type and see a   
    AK> Russian text using the windows program called "Notepad"? (It   
    AK> manages simple ASCII texts).   
      
   My Windows system operates in codepage 437 by default.  Notepad will only work   
   using the current codepage.  BUT, I can change the codepage to 866 (Russian)   
   and  the Russian chars I produce can *then* be copied into Notepad just fine!   
   :)  I did not know that, but it works!   
      
   However, the same Russian characters that are then in the clipboard, will   
   still not render in Reformator/Quoter.  :(  Anything non-ASCII will just come   
   out as "?????????" characters.   
      
      
    AK> So, tell me -- can you paste a Russian text into Notepad   
    AK> Windows app.   
      
   Actually, that *does* work!  And, I don't seem to have to change the   
   codepage.  Interesting.   
      
      
    AK> PS: You can also describe the way how I can get the problem   
    AK> artificially.   
      
   I just copied some text I entered here:   
      
   	https://russian.typeit.org/   
      
   ...and I copied it into Notepad, and it looked the same.  But when I copy into   
   Reformator/Quoter, I only get "????????" characters.   
      
   Even something from google translate has the same results:   
      
   	what's new? = что нового?   
      
   But in R/Q it looks like:   
      
   	what's new? = ??? ???????   
      
      
      
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   Quoted with Reformator/Quoter. Info = https://tinyurl.com/sxnhux   
      
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