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|    Re: UTF-8 Characters    |
|    02 Apr 22 10:02:46    |
      From: nospam.g00r00@f215.n129.z1.fidonet.org               JH> Not sure if this has been brought up before, but I thought I would ask        JH> anyway. It appears that if someone uses an iOS device to post a message        JH> on Synchronet's web interface, the punctuation appears a little funky on        JH> Mystic boards (or even on Synchronet boards if using a terminal that        JH> doesn't support UTF-8).              I am assuming its saved as a UTF-8 message since it contains UTF-8 characters,       so Mystic is displaying the UTF8.              Are you asking for Mystic to try to convert UTF8 to various DOS codepages for       messages with a UTF8 kludge on terminals that aren't UTF8? Mystic does convert       to UTF8 and but not the other way around although I could add that.              ... There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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