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 Message 4178 
 Anton Shepelev to Gleb Hlebov 
 Re: OT: Default encoding in Russian Fido 
 20 Sep 24 20:18:08 
 
MSGID: 2:221/6.0 66edae48
REPLY: 2:5023/24.4222 66ed0591
PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240915
NOTE: tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (FreeBSD/14.1-RELEASE (amd64))
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
TZUTC: 0300
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02
Gleb Hlebov <4222@24.5023.2> wrote:

 GH >Hi Anton,
 GH >
 AS>> # Anton exists tin, fixes his tinrc by hand, runs tin again
 AS>> Indeed! It is a bug in my version of tin:
 AS>> the menu has KOI8-RU instead of koi8-r .
 AS>> Thank you!
 GH >
 GH >It's the Tao of unix: you can never set anything up through "drop-down
 GH >menus". :-)

Turned out there /exists/ a KOI8-RU as well!

 GH >You can also check this setting which allows FTN-style quoting in
 GH >replies (recommended for Fidonet), with leading initials:
 GH >
 GH >======
 GH ># Characters used in quoting to followups and replies.
 GH ># '_' is replaced by ' ', %I is replaced by author's initials.
 GH >quote_chars=_%I >
 GH >======

Yes, and works good, I can try to choose the right refix
via the attributes files, although it works by group rather than
by server...

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