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echo: tuxpower
to: August Abolins
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2024-03-03 09:02:00
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On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 17:47:50 +0200, August Abolins -> Maurice Kinal wrote:

 AA> Sylpheed seems to add the Re: and thus cuts off the text at the
 AA> beginning of the subject.  I don't see where the Re: can be disabled.
 AA> Personally, I don't like the addition of Re:

I don't think it's Sylpheed that adds that. There is an option in your
smapinntpd.config "nostripre" or something like that. Change that
setting and "Re: " won't be added to replies.

 AA> So.. the fault is not FTN per se. FTN was built to support an
 AA> English-speaking community. And as you have discovered, just supporting
 AA> utf-8 is not enough espectially if the the requirement is to support
 AA> languages that typically require writing/reading right-to-left.

But it's kind of satisfying when you can do what wasn't meant to be
done.  Isn't it? ;)

Regards,
Nick

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