home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   ENGLISH_TUTOR      English Tutoring for Students of the Eng      4,347 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 4,166 of 4,347   
   Alexander Koryagin to Gleb Hlebov   
   OT: Default encoding in Russian FidoNet   
   17 Sep 24 09:40:44   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/6.0 66e92468   
   REPLY: 2:5023/24.4222 66e9213f   
   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240915   
   NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101   
   Thunderbird/31.7.0   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02   
      
   Hi, Gleb Hlebov!   
   I read your message from 17.09.2024 06:18   
      
      
    AS>>>> What is the default encoding of a Russian FidoNet message, the   
    AS>>>> one assmed in default of a CHRS cludge? Is it koi8-r or 866?   
    GH>>> It's set to 866 in its "native" software. If you're using an NNTP   
    GH>>> client under Linux it should be KOI8-R.   
    AK>> Modern and even not very modern NNTP clients can also be tuned for   
    AK>> UTF-8. In this case you must use a FIDO gate with UTF-8 support,   
    AK>> like this for instance, which I use for many years (Thunderbird   
    AK>> mail client): news.dewy.ru   
      
    GH> Sure, but utf-8 makes little sense as long as Russian Fidonet is   
    GH> stuck with cp866. And it's fine this way. :-)   
      
   Everything is OK with cp866 at news.dewy.ru. If I send my UTF-8 message (using   
   any version Thunderbird) to this gate it gates it to FIDONET in cp866. And   
   vice versa.   
      
   Bye, Gleb!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2024   
      
   ---    
    * Origin: news://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)   
   SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305   
   SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840 850   
   SEEN-BY: 218/860 870 880 930 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 114   
   SEEN-BY: 229/206 300 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512 282/1038   
   SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200   
   SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35   
   PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca