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 Message 2379 
 Nicholas Boel to Carlos Navarro 
 JamNNTPd and UTF-8 
 25 Feb 24 09:45:40 
 
MSGID: 1:154/10 65db60a4
REPLY: 2:341/234.99 65db238c
PID: Smapinntpd/Linux 2.0 b20240216
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: -0600
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:25:08 +0100, Carlos Navarro -> Benny Pedersen wrote:

 BP>> problem with jamnntpd is that it does not support multibyte,

 CN> You're right about JamNNTPd not supporting multibyte. It wraps lines at
 CN> 79 bytes, not at 79 chars. Therefore those that have UTF-8 chars (2 or
 CN> more bytes) become shorter when wrapped. The more UTF-8 chars a line
 CN> has, the shorter.

 CN> This is noticeable in readers that don't support flowed text (most NNTP
 CN> clients).

 CN> ASCII:
 CN> aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou
 CN> aeiou aeiou

 CN> UTF-8:
 CN> áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú
 CN> áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú áéíóú
 CN> áéíóú áéíóú

For the record, def_flowed=off changes what looked correct before to this.
This can also be a test for the top quoted line to see if those pesky
non-breaking spaces are added here or not.

Regards,
Nick

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