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  • DDMsgReader: MOSCOWTIMES not displaying correctly

    From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Thursday, May 01, 2025 01:52:15
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/920

    Not sure if this is a you thing or a Digital Man thing. Looks like more encoding issues.

    ![image](https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/uploads/d6e37686ab0a3765526934ad224fa171/image.png){width=769 height=472}

    You can see this in the new MOSCOWTIMES group.

    Thanks.

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@VERT to Nigel Reed on Thursday, May 01, 2025 10:56:10
    Hi Nigel,

    On 2025-05-01 01:52:15, you wrote to GitLab issue in main/sbbs:

    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/920

    Not sure if this is a you thing or a Digital Man thing. Looks like more encoding issues.

    ![image](https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/uploads/d6e37686ab0a3765526934ad
    224fa171/image.png){width=769 height=472}

    You can see this in the new MOSCOWTIMES group.

    I don't think it's a Synchronet issue.

    The originating system for the messages in the MOSCOWTIMES area had an issue where the message contained a 'CHRS: CP850 2' kludge, but the message and subject text could contain utf-8 characters. That was fixed yesterday. So new messages shouldn't have this problem.


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Thursday, May 01, 2025 09:56:42
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/920#note_7172

    Z39C said (in IRC) that the issue was the message wasn't posted properly:

    <Z39C> That problem is already fixed.
    <Nightfox> Z39C: It is? I'm the author of DDMsgReader, and I haven't done any work on that issue yet
    <Nightfox> Or was the message just messed up somehow?
    <Z39C> Yes, the message had utf-8 chars but the chrs kludge said cp850... <Z39C> The originating system fixed that in his RSS to fido script.
    <Nightfox> ah.. Yeah, DDMsgReader should be handling UTF-8 already. If it didn't know there was UTF-8, maybe that's why they weren't displayed properly, I'd guess
    <Dan_C> Yes, the kludge inserted by the originating system was wrong, and now corrected
    <Z39C> Well, the kludge is still the same but he converts the text from utf-8 to cp850 now before posting! ;-)

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Thursday, May 01, 2025 09:57:40
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/920#note_7172

    Z39C said (in IRC) that the issue was the message wasn't posted properly:

    <Z39C> That problem is already fixed.
    <Nightfox> Z39C: It is? I'm the author of DDMsgReader, and I haven't done any work on that issue yet
    <Nightfox> Or was the message just messed up somehow?
    <Z39C> Yes, the message had utf-8 chars but the chrs kludge said cp850... <Z39C> The originating system fixed that in his RSS to fido script. <Nightfox> ah.. Yeah, DDMsgReader should be handling UTF-8 already. If it didn't know there was UTF-8, maybe that's why they weren't displayed properly, I'd guess
    <Dan_C> Yes, the kludge inserted by the originating system was wrong, and now corrected
    <Z39C> Well, the kludge is still the same but he converts the text from utf-8 to cp850 now before posting! ;-)

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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Wilfred van Velzen on Thursday, May 01, 2025 12:02:57
    Re: Re: DDMsgReader: MOSCOWTIMES not displaying correctly
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to Nigel Reed on Thu May 01 2025 10:56:10

    I don't think it's a Synchronet issue.

    The originating system for the messages in the MOSCOWTIMES area had an issue where the message contained a 'CHRS: CP850 2' kludge, but the message and subject text could contain utf-8 characters. That was fixed yesterday. So new messages shouldn't have this problem.

    Good information. Thank you.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Thursday, May 01, 2025 10:10:54
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/920

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