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digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #64:
SMTP = Simple Message Transfer Protocol
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Re: boxes.utf8
By: Rob Swindell to All on Sun Jul 07 2019 03:48 pm

UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file
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Markus Kuhn [?ma?k?s ku?n] <mkuhn@acm.org> - 1999-08-20

Test reply from a CP437 terminal.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #61:
SEXPOTS = Synchronet External Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) service
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Hey Rob!

Is this what was supposed to happen?

UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file
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Markus Kuhn [?ma?k?s ku?n] <mkuhn@acm.org> - 1999-08-20

All I did was to convert the above from cp437 to utf-8 using iconv.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Re: boxes.utf8
By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Jul 08 2019 02:19 am

Hey Rob!

Is this what was supposed to happen?

UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file
------------------------------------

Markus Kuhn [?ma?k?s ku?n] <mkuhn@acm.org> - 1999-08-20

All I did was to convert the above from cp437 to utf-8 using iconv.

Yes, looks correct. You have to do that manually?

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #43:
I feel my role in the band is ... kind of like lukewarm water.
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Hey Rob!

Yes, looks correct. You have to do that manually?

Yes. How else could it be done? It would have been better if the original had
already done the conversion if that is what they are after. Also mixing regular 8-bit encodings with utf8 should be avoided despite the fact that it works ... sort of ... not really.

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Maurice

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Re: boxes.utf8
By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Jul 08 2019 05:07 am

Hey Rob!

Yes, looks correct. You have to do that manually?

Yes. How else could it be done?

Your message reader/viewer could assume CP437 if there's no CHRS: kludge and do
the conversion automatically.

It would have been better if the original
had already done the conversion if that is what they are after. Also mixing regular 8-bit encodings with utf8 should be avoided despite the fact that it works ... sort of ... not really.

I wasn't trying to mix "regular 8-bit encodings" with UTF-8. I posted what was supposed to be pure UTF-8, but my signature included a CP437 "degree" symbol (248). Other than that, it should have been pure UTF-8. And on my last test, I had the signature successfully auto-converted to UTF-8 when the body text is UTF-8.

I also posted a test where I replied to and quoted the original UTF-8 message into a pure CP437 message. There was no mixture in that message: it was all CP437.

digital man

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Hey Rob!

Your message reader/viewer could assume CP437 if there's no
CHRS: kludge and do the conversion automatically.

It could but it doesn't. It makes no assumptions and if they are indeed cp437 they still are.

but my signature included a CP437 "degree" symbol (248)

Which I see still is. If I farm it out as a text stream and pipe that to "iconv -f cp437" it returns;

Norco, CA WX: 60.5oF

which is now utf8 -> U+00B0 or c2 b0 if you prefer. The original is still cp437.

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Maurice

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Re: boxes.utf8
By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Jul 08 2019 05:07:25

Yes, looks correct. You have to do that manually?

Yes. How else could it be done? It would have been better if the

original

had already done the conversion if that is what they are after. Also

mixing

regular 8-bit encodings with utf8 should be avoided despite the fact that

it

works ... sort of ... not really.

they all looked OK from here other than a word wrapping problem... i'm logged in from my console terminal via ssh and using sbbs' new unicode stuff... all i can say is "This Is Noice!"... ANSI works, CP437 above 127 are translated to unicode points properly, 99% of everything just seems to work as desired... whoohoo!


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Hey waldo!

they all looked OK from here other than a word wrapping problem

Same situation here although I haven't gone over everything with a fine tooth comb ... yet. Haven't checked for any missing 0x8d's. So far so good. :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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