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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    UTF-8 question    |
|    31 Dec 19 18:03:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet dff112c9       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet dff27005       PID: OpenXP/5.0.42 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Martin!              ** 31.12.19 - 09:18, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:               AA>> I think we had a little chat about UTF-8 before (can't remember),        AA>> but why is it that OXP doesn't display utf-8 chars all that well?               MF>Yes we did and the thread was started by your good self on 4th April        MF>2019 entitled "oxp: UTF-8". Some very interesting stuff came out of        MF>that thread and in particular, the developers comments which I posted        MF>in a message dated 5th April 2019.              Thank you for the reminder. I reviewed those messages.              Being a DOS program, oxp's UTF-8 results are highly dependent on the Font        set in use and the limits of that font's support. I thought Lucinda        Console font would solve all the problems, but it does not.              In other news, I am still baffled how oxp decides to use IBM437 and when        to use UTF-8, or even when it just uses US-ASCII for outgoing messages.              Are key chars triggering the selection?                      ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.42        * Origin: o,,,,o§ø`ø§o,,,,o§ø`ø§o,,,,o (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 227/114 229/426 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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