Benny wrote (2022-03-28):

 TK>> All I did was to add these lines:

 TK>> read UTF-8      utf-8
 TK>> post utf-8      UTF-8

 TK>> Which Thunderbird are you using? The newest TB seems to always post
 TK>> messages in utf-8. Annoying...

 BP> in fidonet its only iso8859-1

 BP> as LATIN-1, jamnntpd is good, but it does not solve clents not
 BP> understanding what utf-8 is

We cannot avoid UTF-8 forever.

 BP> so imho "post utf-8 utf-8" should be "post utf-8 latin-1"

 BP> as i remember it

 BP> that will convert all to utf-8 ready for thunderbird, and give it back to
 BP> fidonet clients as latin-1, setup latin-1 as default write in
 BP> thunderbird. best of 2 diffrents worlds

No, it won't work without a proper xlat file as parameter. The only thing you will get is UTF-8 text with the wrong charset set (= garbage).

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