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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon wmcbrine

MultiMail has limited, archaic character set support

Open wmcbrine opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Modern terminals speak Unicode. So should MultiMail.

wmcbrine avatar Mar 20 '18 18:03 wmcbrine

I'd be interested in working on this, but I'm not sure how to begin. Would you be willing to give me some starting tips?

andy5995 avatar Aug 08 '19 03:08 andy5995

I'll back out of this, better to let someone work on it who knows what they're doing ;)

andy5995 avatar Aug 08 '19 17:08 andy5995

Synchronet-created QWK packets can contain CP437 or UTF-8 encoded message body text and header fields (e.g. to/from/subject), though CP437 is the default. The HEADERS.DAT includes an indicator ("utf8=true") to indicate to the reader that any non-ASCII characters for a particular message (body text and header fields) are indeed UTF-8 and not CP437.

rswindell avatar Aug 18 '19 23:08 rswindell