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От : August Abolins 2:221/1.58 06 апр 25 11:35:00
К : Nick Boel 06 апр 25 18:41:01
Тема : 40 Cups of Coffee
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Hello Nick!
** On Sunday 06.04.25 - 07:16, Nick Boel wrote to me:
NB> By the way (and veering way off here), I just tried OpenXP
NB> again this past week. I first installed on Windows, and
NB> for the life of me I couldn`t get it to display anything
NB> in UTF-8. I tried setting the Windows command prompt to CP
NB> 65001, etc. So I became a little irritated (moreso with
NB> Windows), and installed it on one of my Linux VMs where I
NB> know UTF-8 works properly. Still no dice for most
NB> situations..
I don`t there is UTF-8 support on the incoming. OpenXP is a
terminal/console program afterall.
NB> Come to find out the UTF-8 that /does/ work, has to do
NB> with MIME decoding only. Dovenet`s `Tech Talk` area pulls
NB> directly from the TLDR website which includes html and
NB> MIME encoded text that OpenXP handles very nicely.
I just tried the dove-tech-talk echo, and the TLDR material
with OpenXP looks messy with unresolved conversions. So, not
sure what you consider is "handles very nicely".
NB> Not only does it remove html tags, it decodes MIME and
NB> displays everything in readable text even with the UTF-8
NB> glyphs that come with it. Unfortunately, that`s where UTF-
NB> 8 stops, though..
Oh.. so yes.. the plaintext is what OpenXP does well.
NB> I found that extremely odd, that so much work was put into
NB> that (MIME decoding and preserving UTF-8), but a simple
NB> message with UTF-8 characters can`t be displayed properly.
NB> Eh well, maybe some day. Definitely on the right track,
NB> though! ;)
I doubt that OpenXP can ever support UTF-8 like in gui-type
windows. The limitation is the charset/font support in Windows
DOS terminal. I currently use Lucinda TT console. It has
limits to what foreign chars it supports. German, French,
Italian, Spanish chars are supported.
NB> Other than that, once you get used to where everything is
NB> and how it all works.. it`s actually pretty cool. Mind
NB> you, I didn`t mess with any of the Fido stuff, I only used
NB> NNTP with it, since it was the easiest way to test without
NB> creating a new link or point and messing with my other
NB> configurations.
AFIK, OpenXP maintains UTF-8 chars on the outbound in NNTP-type
areas. Not sure if it renders as expected on the inbound.
NB> Is this a project you`re at all involved with?
Not exactly. I`m primarily a user, sold on the great
performance and features of the system.
NB> Or are you just their super-user/beta-tester,
I *did* kinda kickstart a push to have some problems corrected.
NB> ...or just a fan?
See above! :D
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