Text 7163, 50 rader
Skriven 2014-01-09 20:21:02 av Nicholas Boel (1:154/701)
   Kommentar till text 7161 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/7001.0)
Ärende: CHRS kludge implementations
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Hello Maurice,

On 10 Jan 14 00:40, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Hopefully this fixes it. I think I remembered what I did - I cvs
 NB>> up'd my Golded+ source and recompiled with iconv support, which
 NB>> is experimental. Apparantly it doesn't work very well. :)

 MK> It works now ... again.  I am replying to the one that does work but
 MK> for the record both 'MSGID: 1:154/701 52cf3786' and 'MSGID: 1:154/701
 MK> 52cf394a' are still broken wrt the utf-8 characters being MIA.  Also I
 MK> turned the Møøse back on for this area so that it can provide a
 MK> check for messages originating from here that have no utf-8 characters
 MK> in the message body.  Turns out the Møøse is extremely handy for
 MK> this cause.

Yep. Those two messages were while I was unaware of my breakage of Golded+. I 
have a feeling whatever that experimental implementation of iconv support was 
stripping extended ascii characters. While that may be great for some people, 
I enjoy reading messages as they were intended to be written (as much as 
possible, anyways).

 NB>> Thunderbird still works with it even though the headers are
 NB>> usually broken.

 MK> That is because the characters in the header don't match the CHRS
 MK> kludge.  It is an el-cheapo attempt to cheat the system which is why I
 MK> claimed "doomed" in another post.  If they'd have stuck with ascii
 MK> only in the headers it would have worked since ascii characters are
 MK> legitimate utf-8 characters whereas latin1 characters aren't - or any
 MK> other 8-bit characters for that matter.

I'm beginning to wonder if that's something specific to NNTP in general, and 
not just Thunderbird. I've been tinkering with slrn for the past day or two, 
and while I can set it to read and write using the UTF-8 charset, the NNTP 
server(s) I connect to show text/plain 8bit in the headers. :(

I guess I can add that to the other reasons I've never been a big fan of 
reading/writing messages via NNTP. While I could probably tinker some more and 
possibly get it to work, the interest is fading considerably fast. :)

 MK> ... A Møøse once bit my sister ...

Looking good once again!

Regards,
Nick

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