Subj : Re: UTF vs specific
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Eugene Subbotin
Date : Sat Sep 19 2026 10:56 pm

Hello Michiel!

Saturday September 19 2026 12:21, you wrote to me:

 ES>> @MSGID: 2:5075/35@fidonet 6aae2e54
 ES>> @REPLY: 2:423/39 6aae2bd1
 ES>> @CHRS: LATIN-2 2
 ES>> @TZUTC: 0300
 ES>> @REALNAME: ??????? ????????

 MvdV> So... Conversion from UTF-8 to LATIN-2 does no work in this case...

 MvdV> Answering in the charset of the message that was answered to may not
 MvdV> be the answer...

Yes. It makes sense that I can't transmit Russian characters in 
ASCII/CP437/CP850.


Eugene

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