Subj : Telegram uses utf-8. In Fido I use cp866. So tg_BBS use cp866 as
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Nil A
Date : Mon Jul 12 2021 20:33:42

Hello, Tommi!

Monday July 12 2021 17:55, from Tommi Koivula -> Brother Rabbit:

 TK> But the direction from TG to Fido.. If UTF-8 is the native charset
 TK> there, why not use it at least in non-russian echos?

The TG-Fido gate script could have performed some more sophisticated charset manipulation. For example, if the TG UTF-8 message only consists of Latin-1 characters then let it be such in @CHRS.

Basically, you can iconv original message and test it against a list of charsets in some meaningful order to check which one convers into without an error. Do not assume the whole world is using either Latin-1 or Cyrillic, there are at least a bunch of Western European languages in between.

Best Regards, Nil
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