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 Message 185 
 Peicheng Huang to Nicholas Boel 
 utf-8 test 
 21 Aug 23 13:00:44 
 
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PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Win32 master/7ae65021a Aug 10 2023 MSC 1929
TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/99e8c77ca Jul 24 2023 GCC 12.2.0
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BBSID: VERT
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  Re: utf-8 test
  By: Nicholas Boel to Peicheng Huang on Sun Aug 20 2023 08:42 am

 > That's a limitation of Multimail. I don't believe you'll ever be able to use
 > UTF-8 properly in that application, but if you use an external editor that
 > supports UTF-8 you should be able to read/write it properly.

Okay, maybe it will be improved after someone adding Unicode support.

I also tried MultiMail in Linux, with luit's help it can show UTF-8.

Run this command with LC_ALL/LANG set to en_US.UTF-8:
$ luit -encoding UTF-8 mm

Although UTF-8 charmap was selected, MultiMail currently still garbled some
UTF-8 characters. Adding additional layer of UTF-8 to UTF-8 conversion by luit
seems to be a workable solution.

To show CP437 ASCII art, luit's CP437 to UTF-8 conversion looks good:
$ luit -encoding CP437 mm
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 103/705 106/201 153/7715 218/0 1 700 860 920 226/30
SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 112 113 307 317 426 428 470 700 291/111 317/3
SEEN-BY: 320/219
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