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   Anton Shepelev to Gleb Hlebov   
   Re: OT: Default encoding in Russian Fido   
   20 Sep 24 20:18:08   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/6.0 66edae48   
   REPLY: 2:5023/24.4222 66ed0591   
   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240915   
   NOTE: tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (FreeBSD/14.1-RELEASE (amd64))   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02   
   Gleb Hlebov <4222@24.5023.2> wrote:   
      
    GH >Hi Anton,   
    GH >   
    AS>> # Anton exists tin, fixes his tinrc by hand, runs tin again   
    AS>> Indeed! It is a bug in my version of tin:   
    AS>> the menu has KOI8-RU instead of koi8-r .   
    AS>> Thank you!   
    GH >   
    GH >It's the Tao of unix: you can never set anything up through "drop-down   
    GH >menus". :-)   
      
   Turned out there /exists/ a KOI8-RU as well!   
      
    GH >You can also check this setting which allows FTN-style quoting in   
    GH >replies (recommended for Fidonet), with leading initials:   
    GH >   
    GH >======   
    GH ># Characters used in quoting to followups and replies.   
    GH ># '_' is replaced by ' ', %I is replaced by author's initials.   
    GH >quote_chars=_%I >   
    GH >======   
      
   Yes, and works good, I can try to choose the right refix   
   via the attributes files, although it works by group rather than   
   by server...   
      
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