Subj : JamNNTPd and UTF-8
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Thu Feb 08 2024 05:08:14

Hello Carlos!

05 Mar 2023 08:51, Carlos Navarro wrote to All:

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

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

 CN> ================================
 CN> read UTF-8   utf-8   -keepsoftcr
 CN> ================================

 CN> Carlos

problem with jamnntpd is that it does not support multibyte, so only can change singlebyte in diffrent charsets

better is to setup thunderbird to NOT send utf-8 at all, so keep what is supported in fidonet, but back from fidonet to thunderbird utf-8 works, have you tryed it ? :=)


 Regards Benny

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