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 Message 2246 
 Tommi Koivula to Carlos Navarro 
 JamNNTPd and UTF-8 
 05 Mar 23 14:43:46 
 
MSGID: 2:221/360.0 64048e7c
REPLY: 2:341/234.1 64044a16
PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20230305
TID: GE/2 1.2
BBSID: RBB
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: 0200
On 5 Mar 2023 9.51, Carlos Navarro wrote:

> I had noticed that some Unicode characters were not displayed (showing the
"rhombus with question mark" instead), precissely those that have a 0x8D byte
when encoded in UTF-8. Examples: the cyrillic e (Ñ), 0xD1 0x8D; the "thumbs
up" emoji (ðŸ‘), 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D.

ðŸ‘

>
> I've found that this issue can be fixed by adding "-keepsoftcr" to the
corresponding line in jamnntpd.xlat, just like with CP866:
>
> ================================
> read UTF-8   utf-8   -keepsoftcr
> ================================

Done. :)

'Tommi

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