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Hey August!

On Sun, Apr 06 2025 04:47:00 -0500, you wrote:

 > Is that for this one?

 > MID: 1:153/7001 67f1eaf4
 > EDA: 20250406024600W+0

 > That one looks just fine here.

It was, yes. But if it looks fine there and it looks fine before it left
Maurice's system, then it had to be something on my end. That was the only
messages I noticed, so I'll just chalk it up as a hiccup and move on as long
as it doesn't happen again.

Thanks for the confirmation.

By the way (and veering way off here), I just tried OpenXP again this past
week. I first installed on Windows, and for the life of me I couldn't get it
to display anything in UTF-8. I tried setting the Windows command prompt to CP
65001, etc. So I became a little irritated (moreso with Windows), and
installed it on one of my Linux VMs where I know UTF-8 works properly. Still
no dice for most situations..

Come to find out the UTF-8 that /does/ work, has to do with MIME decoding
only. Dovenet's 'Tech Talk' area pulls directly from the TLDR website which
includes html and MIME encoded text that OpenXP handles very nicely. Not only
does it remove html tags, it decodes MIME and displays everything in readable
text even with the UTF-8 glyphs that come with it. Unfortunately, that's where
UTF-8 stops, though..

I found that extremely odd, that so much work was put into that (MIME decoding
and preserving UTF-8), but a simple message with UTF-8 characters can't be
displayed properly. Eh well, maybe some day. Definitely on the right track,
though! ;)

Other than that, once you get used to where everything is and how it all
works.. it's actually pretty cool. Mind you, I didn't mess with any of the
Fido stuff, I only used NNTP with it, since it was the easiest way to test
without creating a new link or point and messing with my other configurations.

Is this a project you're at all involved with? Or are you just their
super-user/beta-tester, or just a fan?

Regards,
Nick

... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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