Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Sergey Dorofeev
Date : Fri Mar 14 2025 19:54:01

Hello Nicholas,

orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 09 Mar 25  21:23:00
 >> That's the thing that I do to keep all messages on my node in UTF-8...
 >> without stable success though.
 NB> What is unstable about it, if you don't mind me asking?

Not all sysops use correct CHRS kludge.
Moreover, there is some messages with two different charset (some SYNCHRO users) - message itself in UTF-8, but tearline uses CP437-encoded pseudographics.

 >> or set the one and only encoding. Second way was chosen.
 NB> Do you still translate all incoming mails to UTF-8 using iconv so they're
 NB> readable?

Yes. But no external iconv, pyhton internal decode/encode.

 >> May be it is duty of ZC, to drop invalid segment, and not "help" sysop
 >> to publish errors, replacing them with any mark.
 NB> I would love to see those "?" entries in DAILYUTF as "🖕" instead. At least
 NB> then it wouldn't cause errors. :)

😁

Sergey

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