NB> Those two messages were while I was unaware of my breakage of NB> Golded+
All 3 arrived here at the same time so I had the opportunity to read them all back to back which is why I chose to reply to the 3rd working one.
NB> have a feeling whatever that experimental implementation of iconv NB> support was stripping extended ascii characters.
I have no idea what so-called "extended ascii characters" really are. I do know that it was stripping the utf-8 ones which are definetly NOT "extended ascii characters", no matter what "extended ascii characters" turn out to be. Back when the term first surfaced (1990-ish) the IBM people had a different definition for them than the Apple people. That is what I recall about so-called "extended ascii characters". Back then I stuck with ascii codes and let the rest duke it out for the "extended ascii" title. Put it this way, the real ascii people don't call them extended, higher or otherwise. I believe they call them 8-bit characters if they call them anything.
NB> I'm beginning to wonder if that's something specific to NNTP
Possibly. I honestly don't know much about newsreaders. Used to use a terminal based one in the early 1990's but haven't really since then. What is the attraction?
I did see a screenshot lately that displayed your repost of "squirrels in my pants" that got it right, including proper wordwrapping of multibyte characters. However it was from a gui version running on a virtualized windows ... win98 I think. Seems to me that it could work based on that screenshot.
NB> I've never been a big fan of reading/writing messages via NNTP
Amen! Now we're speaking the same language.
NB> MK> ... A Møøse once bit my sister ...
NB> Looking good once again!
Yes indeed. I'll leave it as is just to play it safe ... for now.
Life is good, Maurice
... A Møøse once bit my sister ... --- GNU bash, version 4.2.45(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) * Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.0)
