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NOTE: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32).
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
TZUTC: 0200
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:10:52 GMT
"Maurice Kinal -> August Abolins" <113@464.280.2> wrote:

 MK> particular application handles them on the local displey is up to your
 MK> application but the msg_body shouldn't be messed with as far as altering
 MK> them is concerned.  As you have clearly demonstrated with the 8-bit
 MK> encodings (eg CP437), this isn't always the case and bad things can and
 MK> do happen.

All I can do is use nntp and sylpheed which handles utf8 without issues when
preservation of utf8 chars is important, and use something else when plain
ascii will suffice.

 MK> You can now hang your head in shame.  :-)

No shame on my part.. because,

 MK> ... Fidonet 1080p - De vier pinguïns van de Apocalyps

 ..that part with the "ï" isn't critical to the message!  :D

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