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|    g00r00 to Shaun Buzza    |
|    Re: UTF-8 Characters    |
|    03 Apr 22 19:05:10    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48       MSGID: 1:129/215 50ba599e       REPLY: 1:229/110 471e224c       TZUTC: -0400        SB> From this McNoob's point of view, it seems like Synchro and Mystic aren't        SB> agreeing on which format to communicate with...              I do have a solution for that, but I think there always is going to be some       issue with various codepages and UTF8 only because they cannot always convert       between each other.              For example a UTF8 message using cyrillic cannot convert almost any ASCII       codepage other than couple that are specifically designed for it. So when you       are in say a US DOS codepage and there is cyrillic you can't do much about it.              I do have some better translations in the pipeline but at the end of the day       you just end up with a ? ASCII instead of a UTF8 cyrillic when it cannot       convert.              I don't think its an issue with compatibility between Synchronet and Mystic       per se, although there is a lot of work to be done there by just about       everything in the FidoNet space especially those of us centric to CP437/850.              Like I said, I have some working proofs here but I want a good stable release       before I start messing with the display engine since that can totally fubar a       BBS if its buggy. I've also considering just spinning off a 1.50 release and       keeping 1.12 for fixes and minor features.              ... Press SPACEBAR once to abort, or twice to save changes              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/04/03 (Windows/64)        * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/340 616 123/10       SEEN-BY: 123/120 131 129/215 305 330 331 153/7715 154/10 30 40 50       SEEN-BY: 154/700 203/0 218/700 840 220/70 90 221/6 226/17 18 30 100       SEEN-BY: 227/114 201 229/110 206 307 310 317 400 424 426 428 452 550       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/5832 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/854 298/25 301/1 305/2 3 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 2320/105 3634/12       PATH: 129/215 154/10 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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