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|    August Abolins to Alexander Koryagin    |
|    Russian text copy pasting? or more speci    |
|    08 Feb 20 05:32:20    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e3e2bc4       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? = ??? ???????                            --        Quoted with Reformator/Quoter. Info = https://tinyurl.com/sxnhux              --- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/1120 1634 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002 8005 249/206       SEEN-BY: 249/317 261/38 280/5003 5006 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 335/364 342/200 382/147 423/81 2454/119       PATH: 221/360 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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