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|    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           |
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