On 07 Nov 2023, Nicholas Boel said the following...
 
 NB> 2) Is this where iconv support would be beneficial, when an incoming
 NB> message has a CP866 kludge, iconv would translate it to UTF-8 on my end
 NB> so that it is readable and writable, and then translate it back to CP866
 NB> when the reply is sent? Or would it still stay UTF-8 because I'm forcing
 NB> it on export?

this is exactly how it works in the IRC client i use. default is UTF-8 internally, and on input from user, but you can set server, channel, nickname level with personalized encoding.

http://epicsol.org/encoding

it's nice that the fido message has a hint, but if it's wrong, or you know a whole ftn is in russian for example, it would be useful to set that whole net or a specific person that is misconfigured to default to what you want instead.

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