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   Message 5,655 of 8,232   
   Kees van Eeten to Maurice Kinal   
   appearances are decieving   
   16 Jun 18 22:09:42   
   
   Hello Maurice!   
      
    Answering from Golded now, as that is my regular Fido mail reader.   
      
   16 Jun 18 16:04, you wrote to me:   
      
    MK> -={ ':read dump.utf8' starts }=-   
      
    MK>> in my pants", "Jag har ekorrar i mina byxor", "У меня в   
    MK>> штанах белка", "Έχω σκίουροι στο   
    MK>> παντελόνι μου" and "Ich habe Eichhörnchen in meiner   
    MK>> Hose", within a single message which covers five languages thus vastly   
      
    MK> -={ ':read dump.utf8' ends }=-   
      
    Ofcourse it does not look goed here, but neither did it in Thunderbird.   
    The smapinntpd that is in between wants the CHAR kludge. I have set de defaul   
    to some CPxxx to cover messages from mailers from before the kludge was   
    intruduced.   
      
    It does look good on my Python message reader, as there the kludge is ignored   
    a different method is used to define the characterset.   
      
    MK> Note that is an exact replication from your reply (ie zero   
    MK> jiggery-pokery). I notice that Thunderbird does a perfect wordwrap given   
    MK> that it obviously counts multibyte characters the same as 7-bit ascii   
    MK> characters.  Other web based apps I've seen don't as they count characters   
    MK> as bytes.  Kudoes to your implimentation.  :-)   
      
    MK> Does the "CHRS: UTF-8 4" kludge make any difference at all?  If so I'll   
    MK> turn it on here but just so you know it is a total waste of bytes at this   
    MK> end since utf-8 characters work 100% at this end without any interference   
    MK> or help required.   
      
    So yes it makes a difference, but for me olt when I read messages in   
    Thunderbird. As that seldom happens, just do as you like.   
      
    If I want to read a UTF-8 encoded message I can always read it in my   
    other message reader. The only drawback there is that I have never added a   
    message editor.   
      
    That again is lazyness, apart from the editor, it needs routines to   
    insert the message in the squish message base. For reading messages you   
    can take a few shortcuts, but for inserting messages a proper implementation   
    is needed. Maybe, oneday I will make such a beats for either squish or jamm.   
      
   Kees   
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5   
    * Origin: As for me, all I know is that, I know nothing. (2:280/5003.4)   

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