Subj : JamNNTPd and UTF-8
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Sun Mar 05 2023 14:43:46

On 5 Mar 2023 9.51, Carlos Navarro wrote:

> I had noticed that some Unicode characters were not displayed (showing the "rhombus with question mark" instead), precissely those that have a 0x8D byte when encoded in UTF-8. Examples: the cyrillic e (Ñ), 0xD1 0x8D; the "thumbs up" emoji (ðŸ‘), 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D.

ðŸ‘

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> I've found that this issue can be fixed by adding "-keepsoftcr" to the corresponding line in jamnntpd.xlat, just like with CP866:
>
> ================================
> read UTF-8   utf-8   -keepsoftcr
> ================================

Done. :)

'Tommi

--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0
 * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)

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