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|    August Abolins to Nick Boel    |
|    which is why I built my own..    |
|    28 Dec 25 11:58:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 27dc8051       REPLY: 1:154/10 69513d2a       PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Nick!              ** On Sunday 28.12.25 - 08:11, you wrote:               NB> If you're still referring to OpenXP here, I'm not sure if        NB> there has been any more development lately or not (or if        NB> there ever will be), but last time I checked, the Linux        NB> version still didn't support utf-8.              The latest one seems to be Feb 2025:              https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/files/OpenXP%205.0/                      NB> Winpoint did a little bit better, but still wasn't 100%,        NB> and well, it's Windows only, so that's already a huge        NB> limitation.              It thought Win-anything was going to be my final approach to        this messaging hobby, but I actually grew quite fond of the        text-based OpenXP.                      NB> I had mentioned a bug in how it handles time and UTC        NB> offsets upwards of 1-2 (or more, time flies these days)        NB> years ago, got a reply that it would be looked into, and        NB> nothing ever came of it.              I recall something re a time issue. But was there an        acknowledgement? ..or just an excuse?              What's the big deal with UTF-8 in FTN anyway? Do we need utf-8        emojiis in these messages?              As-is, my font [Lucinda console] & charset supports French,        Spanish, Norwegian, and few others.       --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.64        * Origin: (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 100 16/0 19/37 105/81 106/201 123/130 128/187 129/14       SEEN-BY: 142/104 153/7715 154/110 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 134 206 300 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 301/1 320/119 219 319 2119       SEEN-BY: 322/757 762 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 320/219 229/426           |
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