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|    Message 725 of 1,237    |
|    Nicholas Boel to Maurice Kinal    |
|    conversion to cp866    |
|    16 Mar 24 10:55:42    |
      MSGID: 1:154/10 65f5c0fc       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 65f5bcea       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux 2.2.1       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: -0500       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05       On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:38:18 GMT, Maurice Kinal -> Nicholas Boel wrote:               MK> I note that you convert them back to utf-8 before replying. I do the        MK> same here except that after replying I convert them back to the        MK> supported 8-bit character set, cp866 in this case. To be honest utf-8        MK> for all would be best especially when given bogus information in        MK> so-called ftn standards. Simply shocking methinks.              I believe this client forces utf-8 when posting, which is fine. The conversion       works automatically. I do have other clients for testing purposes that can       send it back in CP866, but why?               MK> For sure. Someone has to be on the side of what is right and proper.        :-)              Be prepared to be in the fight for the long haul. :)              Regards,       Nick              ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."       --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderb        * Origin: _thePharcyde distribution system (Wisconsin) (1:154/10)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/616 123/10 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 128/260 135/225 153/757 7001 7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0       SEEN-BY: 214/22 218/0 1 601 700 820 840 850 860 870 880 930 940 220/90       SEEN-BY: 221/0 6 226/18 30 70 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/400 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1038 291/111 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 460/58 467/888 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2320/105 3634/12 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 154/10 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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