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   Message 11,798 of 11,842   
   Martin Kazmaier to Scott Street   
   Re: Netrunner responds with Garbage in S   
   22 Apr 25 00:21:00   
   
   From: nospam.Martin.Kazmaier@f1101.n340.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   * In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Scott Street said:   
      
    > On 05 Mar 2025, Martin Kazmaier said the following...   
      
    >  MK> On an SSH connection to shsbbs.net with the credentials bbs:shsbbs   
    >  MK> netrunner and other bbs terms give me garbage from windows.  From   
    > linux,   
    >  MK> they're fine. From Putty, ZOC or the ssh commandline it's fine.  Can   
    >  MK> anything be done to fix this?  I'm merely using the openssh daemon to   
    >  MK> call a mystic telnet session to my BBS.   
      
    > I appears to me when I connected, that the 'garbage' seen is actually data   
    > sent in the wrong or incompatible character set.  I'm using UTF8 by   
    > default (as most Linux/Unixes would;  however, when I switched to Latin-1   
    > (MSDOS 8bit), it correctly displays your opening ANSI graphic page.   
      
    > I would look to set about the character set settings with the connection   
    > and BBS to resolve.   
      
   I was using OpenSSH in Windows, which only support UTF8.  Now I'm using a   
   Mystic SSH server and all is well.   
      
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