Subj : Re: 40 Cups of Coffee
To   : August Abolins
From : Nick Boel
Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 18:32:36

Hey August!

On Sun, Apr 06 2025 19:10:00 -0500, you wrote:

 > My bad.  I meant FTN-stye, not Fidonet per se. Endoftheline is 
 > 723:320/1

Honestly, the transfer method shouldn't matter much. EOTL is running Synchronet, so I would imagine he's getting his Dovenet feed via QWKnet, and then sending it out to you via FTN. There are some settings in between that decide whether or not that message stays UTF-8, though.

 > Yeah.. dunno why UTF-8 can't be part of the FTN subsystem of OpenXP.  
 > Sofar, it's stickly supported with NNTP type connections.

No sir. It's not NNTP connections at all. All UTF-8 characters display as question marks, and all I used was NNTP. UTF-8 seems to *only* be supported in messages that contain MIME encoding, and I bet those same messages would display the same via NNTP or FTN, as long as the message is unaltered.

I remember the config setting for "Enable UTF-8" in OpenXP was in a wierd place. Doesn't it have MIME related settings in the same box/area? Either way, it definitely didn't seem like a universal, application-wide setting (to me) just by where it was located.

Regards,
Nick

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