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|    Sergey Dorofeev to Nicholas Boel    |
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|    15 Mar 25 04:27:02    |
      MSGID: 2:5020/12000 4f539241       REPLY: 1:154/10 67d4c548       TZUTC: 0300       CHRS: UTF-8 4       Hello Nicholas,              orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 14 Mar 25 18:52:22        NB> This is true, however.. that's the fault of those sysops. I've found the        NB> best working method has been to 'assume' any message with *no* chrs kludge        NB> is CP437, since it probably comes from a BBS package with ANSI support.              Not so easy for me. At first, I must distinguish CP866 and CP437.       At second, there is a little fraction of messages with latin-1 encoding - not       so serious, but some symbols got trashed if wrong charset choosed.       There was messages in encoding that I call "fido-relics" - with 8D byte used       as soft-CR.       And some amount of messages with encodings such as CP1125 - if decoded as       CP866 some letters are displayed wrong.       Using that fact that each echo area has own language - I use per-echo default       encodings.              Sergey              ... vim       --- PyFTN        * Origin: fluid.fidoman.ru (2:5020/12000)       SEEN-BY: 4/0 50/109 90/0 105/81 106/201 128/187 153/7715 154/110 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 317 426 428 470 700 705       SEEN-BY: 280/464 291/111 301/1 113 812 320/219 341/66 234 900/0 902/0       SEEN-BY: 902/26 905/0 5015/46 5020/715 830 848 1042 2065 4441 12000       SEEN-BY: 5030/49 1081 1474 5058/104 5061/133 5097/31       PATH: 5020/12000 4441 1042 301/1 341/66 902/26 229/426           |
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