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to: RAGNAROK
from: DIGITAL MAN
date: 2020-06-07 20:29:00
subject: Re: Table of character

  Re: Re: Table of character
  By: Ragnarok to Angel Ripoll on Sun Jun 07 2020 11:34 pm

 > El 7/6/20 a las 19:49, Angel Ripoll escribi¢:
 > >     Hola Digital!
 >
 > > 07 Jun 20 12:41, Digital Man escribi¨ a Angel Ripoll:
 >
 > >  DM>   Re: Table of character
 > >  DM>   By: Angel Ripoll to All on Sun Jun 07 2020 01:28 pm
 >
 > >  >>     Hola All!
 > >  >>
 > >  >>     Can I change the default character table? I see that by default it
 > > is
 > >  >> in UTF-8 and I want to change it to iso8859-15 if possible. The web
 > > and the
 > >  >> news server do not let me put accents or the ¨ caracter (I can't write
 > >  >> Espa¨a)
 >
 > >  DM> You should be able to view/enter every character of iso8859-15 in
 > >  DM> UTF-8.
 >
 > >     I think I have expressed myself wrong.
 >
 > >     When I write from synchronet through their web server or nntp, i can
 > > put the tildes and others. But here, in Spain, the iso8859-1 (Latin-1) or
 > > iso8859-15 character table that has the character of the euro is used.
 > > When I write from synchronet the other nodes in Spain do not see my
 > > accents correctly. So I would like to put the BBS, at least the web and
 > > the nntp server, in those character tables.
 >
 > >  DM> But if you do want to change the default charset (for the web-site),
 > >  DM> you definitely have options.
 >
 > >     Could you tell me what the options are?
 >
 > Hi Angel !
 >
 > I use thunderbird to read via nntp, and i have that issue because the
 > nntp server send the headers:
 >
 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437

If the message was posted with UTF-8, then that charset should be UTF8 (not
IBM437).

 > Thunderbird does not support this encoding, then i see the '?'
 > characters in the mail read pane.

Does it support UTF-8?

 > Also, i set the sbbs.ini MAil->DefaultCharset=IMB850 without results

That option has no effect on NNTP-imported or posted messages.

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