On 04/02/15, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK>  AI> I just converted a file to utf-8 and it looks good on my console.
 MK> 
 MK> Of course it does.  ;-)

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I was looking at it at one time and
didn't realise that was what I needed..

 MK> Speaking of working kernels, I switched to kv3.18.10 now that the 3.18
 MK> branch has been deemed longterm by the kernel gurus. Works as good as 
 MK> the 3.19.2 version for what I had working on there.

I'm on the BBS machine at the moment, running slackware 14.1 with the 3.10.17
kernel that it comes with. I wonder sometimes if I should update that. But it
runs flawlessly here and ./mis has been running for eons (well, a few weeks)
so I'm also thinking I should leave well enough alone.

 MK>  AI> the BBS has some built in stuff, like lines above and below this
 MK>  AI> reply that just look fugly when I'm in utf-8 mode.
 MK> 
 MK> Not if they are hardcoded into the BBS viewer/editor.  

I think they are ansi templates I can covert to utf-8. I'm going to go try
now. I suppose if I'm going to run Mystic I should go and find out what I can
and cannot do.. :) The message bodies themselves are fine. If someone entered
some high ascii they may not look right depending on the end users terminal
capabilities.. so that as you say it up to the end user.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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