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    From Egor Glukhov@2:5020/736 to All on Monday, June 19, 2023 23:23:38
    Hello All!

    Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

    Egor

    --- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0-dev
    * Origin: Lyubertsy, MO (2:5020/736)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Egor Glukhov on Monday, June 19, 2023 20:37:54
    Hello Egor Glukhov!

    19 Jun 23 23:23:38, Egor Glukhov wrote to All:

    Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.


    Looks good!

    Michiel


    --- goAtEd-windows/386 1.0.5-154-a1826692
    * Origin: (2:280/5555)
  • From Chris Jacobs to Egor Glukhov on Monday, June 19, 2023 23:15:00
    Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

    Hello All!

    Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
    mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

    Egor

    --- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0-dev
    * Origin: Lyubertsy, MO (2:5020/736)

    Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does understand it.
    ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
  • From Peicheng Huang to Chris Jacobs on Friday, August 18, 2023 13:32:00
    Chris Jacobs wrote to Egor Glukhov <=-

    Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

    Hello All!

    Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
    mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

    Egor

    --- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0-dev
    * Origin: Lyubertsy, MO (2:5020/736)

    Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle
    it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does
    understand it. ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format
    offline reader! --- MultiMail/Win v0.52

    I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters. They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

    How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

    In my editor (GVim), UTF-8 characters are not mangled, too.

    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Peicheng Huang on Friday, August 18, 2023 12:24:45
    Hello Peicheng,

    On Friday August 18 2023 13:32, you wrote to Chris Jacobs:

    I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters.
    They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

    How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

    In addition to seting the code page to 65001, you also have to select a TrueType font like Lucide Console.

    https://www.cryptosys.net/firmasat/commandline-font.html


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: Nieuw Schnøørd (2:280/5555)
  • From Chris Jacobs to Peicheng Huang on Saturday, August 19, 2023 06:28:00
    Peicheng Huang wrote to Chris Jacobs <=-

    Chris Jacobs wrote to Egor Glukhov <=-

    Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

    Hello All!

    Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
    mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

    Egor

    --- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0-dev
    * Origin: Lyubertsy, MO (2:5020/736)

    Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle
    it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does
    understand it. ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format
    offline reader! --- MultiMail/Win v0.52

    I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters.
    They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

    How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

    In my editor (GVim), UTF-8 characters are not mangled, too.

    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52

    I don't read UTF-8 in console. I read it in Notepad.
    ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
  • From Peicheng Huang to Michiel van der Vlist on Saturday, August 19, 2023 08:13:53
    Re: utf-8 test
    By: Michiel van der Vlist to Peicheng Huang on Fri Aug 18 2023 12:24 pm

    Hello Peicheng,

    In addition to seting the code page to 65001, you also have to select a TrueType font like Lucide Console.

    https://www.cryptosys.net/firmasat/commandline-font.html

    Thank you for the information.

    I tried to use Lucida Console and several other fonts, still showing boxes..

    https://imgur.com/a/PUkglID
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/701 to Peicheng Huang on Sunday, August 20, 2023 08:42:33
    On 19 Aug 2023, Peicheng Huang said the following...

    Thank you for the information.

    I tried to use Lucida Console and several other fonts, still showing boxes..

    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.

    Regards,
    Nick

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (1:154/701)
  • From Peicheng Huang to Nicholas Boel on Monday, August 21, 2023 13:00:44
    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