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echo: jamnntpd
to: Tommi Koivula
from: Carlos Navarro
date: 2023-03-05 14:12:00
subject: JamNNTPd and UTF-8

 >> I had noticed that some Unicode characters were not displayed (showing
 TK> the "rhombus with question mark" instead), precissely those that have a
 TK> 0x8D byte when encoded in UTF-8. Examples: the cyrillic e (¨), 0xD1
 TK> 0x8D; the "thumbs up" emoji (¨), 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D.

 TK> ¨


 >> I've found that this issue can be fixed by adding "-keepsoftcr" to the
 TK> corresponding line in jamnntpd.xlat, just like with CP866:

 >> ================================
 >> read UTF-8   utf-8   -keepsoftcr
 >> ================================

 TK> Done. :)

Your message arrived here without the 0x8D chars... :-m
Maybe your tosser removed them?

Carlos

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