Subj : /ill formed Re: UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jun 06 2020 10:51:38

  Re: /ill formed Re: UTF-8 nodelist report
  By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Sat Jun 06 2020 06:03:51


 AA>>> I think violators should be upside down!

 AA>>> 43'X'W'0069'744069-13-64'u? uoq'aS'-=X=I== '802'

 ML>> doesn't work properly... and this editor doesn't quote UTF-8
 ML>> properly, either...

 AA> Yeah... I can see that.  You're sending with CP437.

in this case, it is because there's no UTF-8 in that reply... the BBS is smart when it comes to deciding if a message is UTF-8 or not... posts without UTF-8 are marked as ASCII or CP437 or maybe whatever the system's default codepage is... if a UTF-8 character is found in the post, then the message should carry the UTF-8 control line...

so yeah, the BBS properly displays UTF-8... this editor cannot currently properly quote UTF-8... i can enter UTF-8 characters in it, though... so as a quick test:

  ä ö ô Ç

i'm not sure about that last one... i think it should be the capital C with a tail (cedilla?)... i'm still working on trying to understand this linux "compose" method of entering these characters... it is very different than the old ALT-123 style used in DOS/winwhatever installations...


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