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|    Benny Pedersen to Carlos Navarro    |
|    JamNNTPd and UTF-8    |
|    08 Feb 24 05:08:14    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 65c4629b       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 2:341/234.1 64044a16       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Carlos!              05 Mar 2023 08:51, Carlos Navarro wrote to All:               CN> I had noticed that some Unicode characters were not displayed (showing         CN> the "rhombus with question mark" instead), precissely those that have         CN> a 0x8D byte when encoded in UTF-8. Examples: the cyrillic e (Š), 0xD1         CN> 0x8D; the "thumbs up" emoji (Flę), 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D.               CN> I've found that this issue can be fixed by adding "-keepsoftcr" to the         CN> corresponding line in jamnntpd.xlat, just like with CP866:               CN> ================================        CN> read UTF-8 utf-8 -keepsoftcr        CN> ================================               CN> Carlos              problem with jamnntpd is that it does not support multibyte, so only can       change singlebyte in diffrent charsets              better is to setup thunderbird to NOT send utf-8 at all, so keep what is       supported in fidonet, but back from fidonet to thunderbird utf-8 works, have       you tryed it ? :=)                      Regards Benny              ... too late to die young :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.7.4-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260 135/225       SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 30 203/0 2 124 218/700 221/0 1 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 230/0       SEEN-BY: 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 460/58 256 1124 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 5020/400 5054/30       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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