Subj : oxp: UTF-8
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Apr 05 2019 14:47:00

Hello August!

On 04.04.19 at 14:19, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I have Config/Options/MessageReader configured with UTF-8 enabled (it's
 AA>> actually the default.

 AA>> But UTF-8 chars don't seem to render properly.

 AA>> It that a bug?

 MF> Not sure about that but the developer did a bugfix relating to UTF-8
 MF> recently, perhaps that may fix it.

Later .....

I've contacted the developer about this and here's what he had to say:

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"Depends on the message content and the specified message charset :-)

And he also has to configure an appropriate font in the windows
console, e.g. "Lucida Console".

Here on the Continent we probably have more UTF-8 encoded messages
than in GB or in USA, and I think I've pulled the maximum of UTF-8
functionality out of OpenXP (which internally still work with MS-DOS
Codepage 437 in many areas, as it's roots were in the MS-DOS era of
the early nineties).

Maybe he can forward the problematic message to me."
---------- 8< ----------

Over to you :)

Regards,
Martin

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 * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:240/2188.31)

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