Subj : Test Reply
To   : Accession
From : deon
Date : Mon Dec 25 2023 12:17 pm

  Re: Test Reply
  By: Accession to deon on Sun Dec 24 2023 08:15 am

Howdy,

 > It probably wouldn't look good at all to CP437 users. But technically in
 > this case, you're replying to a UTF-8 user. That should be what matters.
 > When replying to a CP437 user, it should look fine as CP437.
 >
 > However (and this might be a better choice), If you don't want to mess with
 > translations, that's totally fine too. But I would keep the CP437 CHRS
 > kludge on your message no matter what then, and not use/copy the charset of
 > the original poster.

My goal is it keep the original message - so if multiple people are testing, or if somebody is sending out multiple tests - the reply lets you know which ones were responded to (and which werent). And if there were non-CP437 chars in there, you would still see them in the reply.

My original rational for keeping the original kludge, is to honor the original format of the message (eg: if it is UTF-8 with UTF-8 chars, then keep it UTF-8, so those UTF-8 chars were preserved). The graphical text that the bot replies with is less important than knowing your test is getting out there.

 > จจจจจจ,จจจจจจจจ
 >
 > There is my tagline in Chinese. I doubt it will be viewable in most console
 > based applications due to font limitations, but if you're on a UTF-8 web
 > browser or NNTP reader, it should look as good as it does here. ;)

If you were using a UTF-8 terminal that added these chars in the test, then the reply, while the clrghouz graphic would probably be messed up, your chinese chars should still be intact. I recall it did work well that way when somebody sent a test message with UTF-8 icons that were preserved. (I used to use iterm as my terminal and I remember reading the reply was intact, but clrghouz's header wasnt).

Perhaps I'll not include any high ASCII if the original message isnt CP437 - doesnt look like there is an obvious silver bullet. Anyway, I'll have a play around with options...

Thanks for all the feedback and ideas...



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