Hello Digital Man,

I have a couple users here in net153 writing in a russian language, latvian I think using CHRS CP866. They are not able to read those messages on the news server because the news server (here, on the BBS) says charset=CP437.

They can read those CP866 messages on other news servers because the news server says..

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r; format=fixed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

So I wonder if it is desirable/possible/doable to change the news server to use a charset like that for CP866 messages.

Below is a bit of an excahnge I had with one of these folks.. just FYI.

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As far as I know the CHRS in FTN is good, but it's reading
messages on the news server that fails. Am I right?

Correct.

X-FTN-AREA: NET153
X-FTN-MSGID: 1:153/7001 6044f849 <==== MSGID
X-FTN-REPLY: 1:153/757.1315 445e8a85
X-FTN-CHRS: CP866 2 <==== FINE and DANDY!
X-FTN-SEEN-BY: 153/105 141 250 757 802 6809 7001 7715
X-FTN-PATH: 153/7001 757
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 <==== OOOPS!
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

So.. should that say charset=IBM866?

If the CP866 message contains 8bit, then the nntp result should
be:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r; format=fixed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Russian languages
By: Al to Digital Man on Sat Mar 13 2021 05:57 pm

So I wonder if it is desirable/possible/doable to change the news server to use a charset like that for CP866 messages.

Sure, I just committed an update to load/newsutil.js. Give that a go and let me know.
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Re: Russian languages
By: Digital Man to Al on Sat Mar 13 2021 08:36 pm

So I wonder if it is desirable/possible/doable to change the news
server to use a charset like that for CP866 messages.

Sure, I just committed an update to load/newsutil.js. Give that a go and let me know.

I think that did the trick. I can't read those messages myself but I can see when looking at those messages the charset is changed now.

Thank you.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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