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   Tommi Koivula to Carlos Navarro   
   JamNNTPd and UTF-8   
   05 Mar 23 14:43:46   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/360.0 64048e7c   
   REPLY: 2:341/234.1 64044a16   
   PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20230305   
   TID: GE/2 1.2   
   BBSID: RBB   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   On 5 Mar 2023 9.51, Carlos Navarro wrote:   
      
   > I had noticed that some Unicode characters were not displayed (showing the   
   "rhombus with question mark" instead), precissely those that have a 0x8D byte   
   when encoded in UTF-8. Examples: the cyrillic e (Ñ), 0xD1 0x8D; the "thumbs   
   up" emoji (ðŸ‘), 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D.   
      
   ðŸ‘   
      
   >   
   > I've found that this issue can be fixed by adding "-keepsoftcr" to the   
   corresponding line in jamnntpd.xlat, just like with CP866:   
   >   
   > ================================   
   > read UTF-8   utf-8   -keepsoftcr   
   > ================================   
      
   Done. :)   
      
   'Tommi   
      
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