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 Message 1013 
 August Abolins to Nick Boel 
 40 Cups of Coffee 
 07 Apr 25 19:42:00 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 1f3356b8
REPLY: 354.tuxpower@1:154/700 2c5997f6
PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)
CHRS: CP437 2
TZUTC: -0400
Hello Nick!

 >> Yeah.. dunno why UTF-8 can't be part of the FTN subsystem of OpenXP.
 >> Sofar, it's stickly supported with NNTP type connections.

 NB> No sir. It's not NNTP connections at all. All UTF-8
 NB> characters display as question marks, and all I used was
 NB> NNTP. UTF-8 seems to *only* be supported in messages that
 NB> contain MIME encoding, and I bet those same messages would
 NB> display the same via NNTP or FTN, as long as the message
 NB> is unaltered.

Well..  OpenXP seems to handle some UTF-8 fine from the UTF8  
echo.  But glyphs? ..forget it.


 NB> I remember the config setting for "Enable UTF-8" in OpenXP
 NB> was in a wierd place. Doesn't it have MIME related
 NB> settings in the same box/area? Either way, it definitely
 NB> didn't seem like a universal, application-wide setting (to
 NB> me) just by where it was located.

There is a UTF-8 setting here:

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³ ³ User interface ³
³ ³>Message Reader<³
³ ³ Editor         ³
³ ³ Viewer         ³
³ ³ Messages       ³
Àij Addresses      ³
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³                                              ³
³   [x]   Full screen                          ³
³   [x]   Display clock                        ³
³   [x]   Line break in column 80              ³
³   [x]   Show reference arrows                ³
³   [x]   Fixed message header display         ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           ³
³   [x]   Use UTF-8                            ³
³   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour          ³
³   [x]   Multi-coloured quotes                ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     ³
³   [x]   AutoScrolling                        ³
³                                              ³
³   [ ]   Exit message reader with     ³
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³  Viewer for URLs  H:\ProgramFiles\Palemoon\ ³
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