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echo: fidotest
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: PAUL QUINN
date: 2020-06-09 20:03:00
subject: IBM437 to IBMPC

Hi! Michiel,

On 09 Jun 20 10:13, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> @CHRS: UTF-8 2
 MV>               ^

 MvdV>>> So it would seem that entering messages via an NNTP gateway is
 MvdV>>> buggy...
 PQ>> Not all.  Just the one in question, for the present.

 MV> JamNNTP has bugs as well in delaing with UTF-8. See above. Also,
 MV> AFAIK, it assumes that the header is always Latin-1.

Yes.  Perfection is difficult with Fidonet; it's an amateur undertaking.

That JamNNTPd is in a UTF-8 Linux environment and has been told not to make any
translations.  That Thunderbird is in the /same/ environment.

Cheers,
Paul.

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