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|    mark lewis to Benny Pedersen    |
|    testing hibit - ˘UU    |
|    07 Feb 15 02:52:16    |
       ml>> ok... have added utf-8 read translation in addition to the existing         ml>> iso translation in my xlat.cfg...               ml> as noted before, i've removed these again because they did not do what         ml> i expected...               BP> what did you expect ?              i expected it to work but there are obviously some parts missing...               BP> utf-8 is nice in the way nntp readers only need to support unicode,              ok...               BP> while ftn senders can use any charset supported in ftn networks,              and utf-8 readers can read them... but let's go the other way...               BP> this part works for me :)                ml> in the mean time, i've attempted to create a utf-8 to iso-8859-1 chs                BP> this table will loose chars from utf-8, so no go              then this is the problem... and is why i have attempted to create the reverse       crossover chart... i can't see where any letters would be lost but they would       be transliterated to their equivelant as has been done for a long time... for       most character sets, anyway...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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