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|    Message 710 of 1,237    |
|    August Abolins to Maurice Kinal    |
|    Re: when you can do what wasn't meant to    |
|    04 Mar 24 00:55:24    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65e4ffd8       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 65e4e75d       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240209       NOTE: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32).       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05       On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:10:52 GMT       "Maurice Kinal -> August Abolins" <113@464.280.2> wrote:               MK> particular application handles them on the local displey is up to your        MK> application but the msg_body shouldn't be messed with as far as altering        MK> them is concerned. As you have clearly demonstrated with the 8-bit        MK> encodings (eg CP437), this isn't always the case and bad things can and        MK> do happen.              All I can do is use nntp and sylpheed which handles utf8 without issues when       preservation of utf8 chars is important, and use something else when plain       ascii will suffice.               MK> You can now hang your head in shame. :-)              No shame on my part.. because,               MK> ... Fidonet 1080p - De vier pinguïns van de Apocalyps               ..that part with the "ï" isn't critical to the message! :D              ---        * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 128/260 135/225 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 601 700 820 840 850 860 870       SEEN-BY: 218/880 930 940 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 266/512 280/464 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 5075/35       PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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