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echo: tuxpower
to: Maurice Kinal
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2024-03-03 08:59:00
subject: ,

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 04:02:38 GMT, Maurice Kinal -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 MK> It looks good here.  If it added a "Re: ", like some so-called FTN
 MK> software does, then it would have stripped bytes from the rightmost
 MK> which in this case is wrong since the rightmost is the beginning not the
 MK> end.  I believe the "Re: " thingy is a QWK standard and not really a FTN
 MK> standard that I am aware of.  I could be wrong about this but I don't
 MK> believe so.

I'm not sure where it's a standard, but it changes the original
subject/message, which I don't think is a good thing in any case. Most
software I use here has an option to add or not add "Re: ", and I
disable it everywhere.

 MK> Bottomline is your software can properly handle utf-8 codes no matter
 MK> where (msg_header in this case) or the msg_body.  You have my seal of
 MK> approval ... for what it's worth.  :-)

Worth every penny. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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