Hello mark,

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:44:38 -0500, mark lewis -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 ml> the last time i tried messing with it was in 2013... i went back to the
 ml> original config after the utf-8 stuff didn't work as expected/desired...
 ml> i don't recall exactly what it was that "wasn't right" but whatever it
 ml> was i didn't like...

This seems to work great for me now:

defaultread CP437

read ibmpc UTF-8 437_u8.chs
read cp437 UTF-8 437_u8.chs
read cp1125 UTF-8 1125_u8.chs
read cp850 UTF-8 850_u8.chs
read cp865 UTF-8 865_u8.chs
read cp866 UTF-8 866_u8.chs
read koi8-r UTF-8 koi8_u8.chs
read latin-1 UTF-8 iso1_u8.chs
read latin-9 UTF-8 850_u8.chs
read UTF-8 UTF-8

readalias iso-8859-1 LATIN-1
readalias iso-8859-15 LATIN-9

defaultpost UTF-8

post * UTF-8

 NB>> It would be nice if at least iconv could somehow be made to accept
 NB>> "unknown-8bit" as CP437 or IBMPC, but alas.. we don't live in a perfect
 NB>> world. :)

 ml> you don't have a DEFAULTREAD CP437 set? if there's a message with no
 ml> CHRS or similar, it'll be assumed to be 437 which should be translated
 ml> easily...

Oddly enough, I didn't. I didn't have one set for Golded either, so I didn't
take that JamNNTPd setting into account. After setting this though, all line
and box drawing are translated properly now! Now to see if there's an
equivalent setting in Golded to do the same thing.. :)

Thanks for pointing that out, it did exactly what I needed!

Regards,
Nick

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