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echo: jamnntpd
to: FLAVIO BESSA
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2020-04-18 13:21:00
subject: Charset

Hi Flavio.

17 Apr 20 19:44, you wrote to All:

 FB>  I have been using JAMNNTPD 1.3 in my system for a while, and am using
Newstap
 FB> as a client for IOS.

 FB>  Regarding character set, we normally use LATIN-1, which goes as
iso-8859-1,
 FB> and I am struggling to configure the jamnntpd.xlat to have it working
fine.

 FB>  Would you have any examples? I can share my jamnntpd.xlat if needed.

This is what I have here:

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chsdir /bbs/xlat

defaultread IBMPC

read CP437      iso-8859-1    437_iso.chs
read CP850      iso-8859-1    850_iso.chs
read CP865      iso-8859-1    865_iso.chs
read CP866      koi8-r        866_koi.chs   -keepsoftcr
read LATIN-1    iso-8859-1
read UTF-8      utf-8
read KOI8-R     koi8-r

readalias IBMPC,850  CP850
readalias IBMPC,865  CP865
readalias IBMPC,866  CP866
readalias IBMPC      CP437

defaultpost IBMPC

post iso-8859-1 LATIN-1
post iso-8859-1 IBMPC         iso_437.chs
post koi8-r     CP866         koi_866.chs
post utf-8      UTF-8
postalias utf_8 UTF-8

post ISO_8859-1 LATIN-1
post LATIN-1    LATIN-1

post us-ascii   IBMPC

postalias windows-1252 iso-8859-1
postalias iso-8859-15  iso-8859-1

=== Cut ===

'Tommi

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