15 Dec 16 15:24, you wrote to me:

 NB>>> into the code a bit. Hopefully nothing breaks, but I think I've
 NB>>> managed to get what I wanted even though I didn't go about it the
 NB>>> proper way. :)

 ml>> can you post what you did/changed to get level 4 indicated for UTF-8?

 NB> I did in my previous message to Tommi. It was hard coded to use level
 NB> 2. I just changed it to use 4 instead. Unfortunately, this hack will
 NB> only work in a UTF-8 only environment, meaning no translating on
 NB> outgoing messages.

i did just now see that...

 ml>> also, i just realized, how'd you get JAMNNTPd to accept UTF-8 in the
 ml>> first place??

 NB> I'm not sure what you mean? JamNNTPd has always accepted translations to
 NB> UTF-8, just not from. For example, I can't translate this message to CP437
 NB> from UTF-8.. but I don't ever see a reason to have to do that. I use
 NB> "defaultpost UTF-8" as well as one single "post * UTF-8" with no
 NB> translation table defined. My outgoing UTF-8 messages don't need
 NB> translation.

i've never seen JAMNNTPd accept a UTF-8 post from a client... in fact, it
specifically refuses them on my OS/2 box... i've had to train my users that if
they see a certain message to open a menu on their client and make sure they
set the characterset to "Western" which is ISO-8859 one and then resend the
message... then it is accepted and they can be happy..

 NB> Granted, translating from say CP437 to UTF-8 doesn't always work well
 NB> either when it comes to line and box drawings,

it can be if they are properly pointed to their UTF-8 equivelents... the real
problem is going the other way but ...

 NB> but if the message is indeed marked properly, and slrn utilizing
 NB> iconv, I don't see why it wouldn't work. At this point I've noticed
 NB> most stats postings or BBS ads with line/box drawings do not contain a
 NB> CHRS kludge, therefore it's considered "unknown-8bit" and will not
 NB> convert to UTF-8 via iconv or JamNNTPd's translations. Most of those
 NB> posts go ignored anyways, so it's not a big deal.

yeah, i've seen a lot of that, too...

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