Subj : Re: 40 Cups of Coffee
To   : August Abolins
From : Nick Boel
Date : Sun Apr 06 2025 07:16:24

Hey August!

On Sun, Apr 06 2025 04:47:00 -0500, you wrote:

 > Is that for this one?

 > MID: 1:153/7001 67f1eaf4
 > EDA: 20250406024600W+0

 > That one looks just fine here.

It was, yes. But if it looks fine there and it looks fine before it left Maurice's system, then it had to be something on my end. That was the only messages I noticed, so I'll just chalk it up as a hiccup and move on as long as it doesn't happen again.

Thanks for the confirmation.

By the way (and veering way off here), I just tried OpenXP again this past week. I first installed on Windows, and for the life of me I couldn't get it to display anything in UTF-8. I tried setting the Windows command prompt to CP 65001, etc. So I became a little irritated (moreso with Windows), and installed it on one of my Linux VMs where I know UTF-8 works properly. Still no dice for most situations..

Come to find out the UTF-8 that /does/ work, has to do with MIME decoding only. Dovenet's 'Tech Talk' area pulls directly from the TLDR website which includes html and MIME encoded text that OpenXP handles very nicely. Not only does it remove html tags, it decodes MIME and displays everything in readable text even with the UTF-8 glyphs that come with it. Unfortunately, that's where UTF-8 stops, though..

I found that extremely odd, that so much work was put into that (MIME decoding and preserving UTF-8), but a simple message with UTF-8 characters can't be displayed properly. Eh well, maybe some day. Definitely on the right track, though! ;)

Other than that, once you get used to where everything is and how it all works.. it's actually pretty cool. Mind you, I didn't mess with any of the Fido stuff, I only used NNTP with it, since it was the easiest way to test without creating a new link or point and messing with my other configurations.

Is this a project you're at all involved with? Or are you just their super-user/beta-tester, or just a fan?

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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