TID: FMail-W32 2.2.0.0
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0100
CHRS: UTF-8 4
MSGID: 2:280/5555 63fb1a05
REPLY: 1:153/757.2 63fa8cca
Hello Alan,

On Saturday February 25 2023 14:26, you wrote to me:

 AI> @MSGID: 1:153/757.2 63fa8cca
 AI> @REPLY: 2:280/5555 63fa857a
 AI> @CHRS: LATIN-1 2
 AI> @TZUTC: -0800
 AI> @TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2023-02-18
 AI> Hello Michiel,

 AI> I think this one will too.

See above.

 AI> If I remember right I setup golded to use that because by default it
 AI> uses "UTF-8 2". Not quite correct but closer to the truth.

There is  trick to make it "UTF-8 4". See my message.

 AI> All of my terminals here are UTF-8 although I don't see UTF-8
 AI> correctly in any of my readers, not on the BBS or when reading with
 AI> golded.

Golded has its limits and do do many other Fidonet readers when it comes to
UTF-8.

Goated and Gosiped do it right.

 AI> I can setup golded to use an external editor and when I hit reply I
 AI> see the UTF-8 characters correctly.

So can I. I use Winvi for that. But it has other issues...

 MV>> But oddly enough Synchronat BBS anwers in CP437 when quote
 MV>> replying to an UTF-8 encoded message...

 AI> Synchronet is generally good about the CHRS kludge but I guess it
 AI> doesn't look at the encoding of the reply. Perhaps it needs to be
 AI> looked at.

yeah...


Cheers, Michiel

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