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
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130910 * Origin: Dark Sorrow | darksorrow.us (1:154/701)
