Subj : openxp chrs
To   : August Abolins
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 18:46:46

Hello August,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:38:00 -0400, you wrote:

 NB>> Looks like while reading UTF-8 seems to work, quoting and
 NB>> posting it doesn't seem possible, though.

 AA> Correct.  For one thing, UTF-8 is limited to the Windows
 AA> charsets supplied.

Windows 11 supports utf-8 wherever it can for most things, as far as I can tell. This seems to be the only program I'm having issues with.

I've also tried 'chcp 65001 >null && openxp.exe' from the command prompt, as well as enabling 'Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support' in Settings > Languages and Region > Administrative language settings > Change system locale. No matter what, the openxp window's properties' current code page is set to 437, and can not be changed. I wonder if this is forced in the Windows version?

Unless there is another way, I don't know it.

 AA> UTF-8 is supported on the inbound and outbound in nntp mode.
 AA> But only in the inbound in Fido mode.

I'm currently tested in nntp mode only. I can read the messages fine, but when I hit CTRL-Q the utf-8 text is quoted as all question marks - even when passed to an external editor that supports utf-8 (notepad), and Config > External > Editor has 'Editor Charset' set to utf-8.

Definitely confused on that one.

 NB>> Also, all messages in the reader view gets wrapped at 80
 NB>> characters, so setting your screen size bigger than that
 NB>> doesn't really do much except give you more blank space.
 NB>> :(

 AA> Not necessarily so.  Look in Config/Options/Message Reader:

 AA> [x]   Line break in column 80

 AA> [x]   Use UTF-8

I have the top one unchecked, and the bottom one checked.

 AA> Right margin    63

I have this set to 74 I believe (to allow for quoted initials), however you can't set it to anything lower than 60 or higher than 77 anyways, it seems (I had tried 0 to see if it would just send text to the edge of the window).

There is also a setting in Config > Options > Miscellaneous of 'Line Break' which is set to 79. According to F1 (Help), that only seems to be for quoted lines and where it is to reflow those lines when they are quoted.

 NB>> It definitely has a lot of features - as well as multiple
 NB>> ways to get your fidonet messages, though.

 AA> It's very versatile. It's an email/nntp/fido client all in one.

Yep, I can definitely agree there.

 AA> You can even define an external editor if you want.

After dealing with the default key combinations to delete lines and whatnot, that was one of the first things I did. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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