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echo: fidotest
to: Nicholas Boel
from: August Abolins
date: 2024-04-17 18:38:00
subject: openxp chrs

Hello Nicholas Boel!

 NB> Looks like while reading UTF-8 seems to work, quoting and
 NB> posting it doesn't seem possible, though.

Correct.  For one thing, UTF-8 is limited to the Windows  
charsets supplied.

UTF-8 is supported on the inbound and outbound in nntp mode.   
But only in the inbound in Fido mode.

 NB> Also, all messages in the reader view gets wrapped at 80
 NB> characters, so setting your screen size bigger than that
 NB> doesn't really do much except give you more blank space.
 NB> :(

Not necessarily so.  Look in Config/Options/Message Reader:

ÚÄ Internal message reader options ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³                                              ³
³   [x]   Full screen                          ³
³   [x]   Display clock                        ³
³   [x]   Line break in column 80              ³
³   [x]   Show reference arrows                ³
³   [x]   Fixed message header display         ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           ³
³   [x]   Use UTF-8                            ³
³   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour          ³
³   [x]   Multi-coloured quotes                ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     ³
³   [x]   AutoScrolling                        ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Exit message reader with     ³
³                                              ³
³  Viewer for URLs  H:\ProgramFiles\Palemoon\ ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

And also look in Config/Options/Editor:

ÚÄ Editor setup ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
³                              ³
³  Right margin    63          ³
³                              ³
³  End of line marker   ú     ³
³                              ³
³   [x]   Auto indent          ³
³   [x]   Persistent Blocks    ³
³   [x]   Quote-Reflow         ³
³                              ³
³   [x]   Enable Ctrl-X/C/V    ³
³                              ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ


 NB> It definitely has a lot of features - as well as multiple
 NB> ways to get your fidonet messages, though.

It's very versatile. It's an email/nntp/fido client all in one.

You can even define an external editor if you want.


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