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|    Martin Foster to August Abolins    |
|    oxp: UTF-8    |
|    05 Apr 19 14:47:00    |
      MSGID: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d721a36c       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet d719a0ff       PID: OpenXP/5.0.36 (Linux) (x86_64)       CHRS: ASCII 1       Hello August!              On 04.04.19 at 14:19, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:               AA>> I have Config/Options/MessageReader configured with UTF-8 enabled (it's        AA>> actually the default.               AA>> But UTF-8 chars don't seem to render properly.               AA>> It that a bug?               MF> Not sure about that but the developer did a bugfix relating to UTF-8        MF> recently, perhaps that may fix it.              Later .....              I've contacted the developer about this and here's what he had to say:              ---------- 8< ----------       "Depends on the message content and the specified message charset :-)              And he also has to configure an appropriate font in the windows       console, e.g. "Lucida Console".              Here on the Continent we probably have more UTF-8 encoded messages       than in GB or in USA, and I think I've pulled the maximum of UTF-8       functionality out of OpenXP (which internally still work with MS-DOS       Codepage 437 in many areas, as it's roots were in the MS-DOS era of       the early nineties).              Maybe he can forward the problematic message to me."       ---------- 8< ----------              Over to you :)              Regards,       Martin              --- OpenXP 5.0.36        * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:240/2188.31)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 226/17 229/107 354 426 1014 240/2100 2188 5138       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 246/2027 249/206 317 400 280/464 292/854 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 342/200 393/68 2432/200 390 2454/119       PATH: 240/2188 5832 229/426           |
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