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|    Jay Harris to g00r00    |
|    Re: UTF-8 Characters    |
|    02 Apr 22 11:13:43    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48       MSGID: 1:229/664 a3484e11       REPLY: 1:129/215 1dbee101       TZUTC: -0400       On 02 Apr 2022, g00r00 said the following...               g0> Are you asking for Mystic to try to convert UTF8 to various DOS        g0> codepages for messages with a UTF8 kludge on terminals that aren't UTF8?              I guess I don't know the "best" way to solve this, whether that would be       Syncronet's web interface converting the text to DOS codepages, Mystic       converting it to DOS codepages or having a terminal that displays the intended       characters (or a combination of these).              Here's another example that was posted with what looks like cyrillic text that       ended up looking funky:              As displayed via Mystic & Netrunner:       https://ibb.co/3yZrCJh              As it appears on Synchronet's web interface:       https://ibb.co/0BjPbZG                     Direct link to message:       http://vert.synchro.net/?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsx_gen&thread=93768#93855                     Jay              ... My inferiority complexes aren't as good as yours.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/03/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305 330       SEEN-BY: 129/331 153/7715 218/700 221/6 226/30 227/114 229/110 206       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 424 426 428 452 550 664 700 240/5832 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 229/664 426           |
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