Subj : More Questions
To   : the doctor
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 13:08:54

  Re: More Questions
  By: the doctor to Digital Man / echicken on Thu Feb 24 2022 03:44 pm

 > Hi guys,
 >
 > I've been looking at this (because I wrote the code back in the mists of
 > time).
 >
 > What I'm sending as EOL characters with the QWK networking is chr(227).  The
 > spec seems to indicate that:
 >
 > "For unclear reasons, new-lines sequences are normally represented by the
 > character 0xE3 (227). In UTF-8 encoded messages, Synchronet uses ASCII 10
 > (LF)t o represent new-lines in QWK message bodies."
 >
 > So... what should I do to make these avatar messages parse on systems other
 > than Vert (until everyone updates to a new version)?  I think I'm following
 > the spec and the spec says that Synchronet converts to LF, not CR/LF.
 >
 > I could change it to send CR/LF in the QWk packet but that is against the
 > specification.

227 is right (for legacy/non-UTF-8 messages). Synchronet expands 227 (0xE3) to CRLF upon import, e.g.

000000f0  0d 0a 57 68 61 74 20 49  27 6d 20 73 65 6e 64 69  |..What I'm sendi|
00000100  6e 67 20 61 73 20 45 4f  4c 20 63 68 61 72 61 63  |ng as EOL charac|
00000110  74 65 72 73 20 77 69 74  68 20 74 68 65 20 51 57  |ters with the QW|
00000120  4b 20 6e 65 74 77 6f 72  6b 69 6e 67 20 69 73 20  |K networking is |
00000130  63 68 72 28 32 32 37 29  2e 20 20 54 68 65 20 0d  |chr(227).  The .|
00000140  0a 73 70 65 63 20 73 65  65 6d 73 20 74 6f 20 69  |.spec seems to i|
00000150  6e 64 69 63 61 74 65 20  74 68 61 74 3a 0d 0a 0d  |ndicate that:...|
00000160  0a 22 46 6f 72 20 75 6e  63 6c 65 61 72 20 72 65  |."For unclear re|

But for whatever reason, your Avatar/syncdata messages were being imported differently:

000000b0  30 0a 6a 73 6f 6e 2d 62  65 67 69 6e 0a 7b 0a 20  |0.json-begin.{. |
000000c0  20 22 41 51 59 46 6f 48  59 55 47 32 75 65 69 47  | "AQYFoHYUG2ueiG|
000000d0  77 50 6f 52 51 4a 71 67  62 5a 6d 74 69 41 65 31  |wPoRQJqgbZmtiAe1|
000000e0  49 53 74 67 50 41 44 37  35 41 75 79 71 52 64 58  |IStgPAD75AuyqRdX|
000000f0  54 56 41 41 30 43 36 75  6c 4b 33 75 58 50 5a 4e  |TVAA0C6ulK3uXPZN|
00000100  75 79 77 64 63 57 50 6a  6b 6c 69 6f 41 52 71 69  |uywdcWPjklioARqi|
00000110  56 45 43 75 56 30 57 79  6f 51 41 3d 3d 3d 22 3a  |VECuV0WyoQA===":|
00000120  20 5b 0a 20 20 20 20 22  53 59 53 4f 50 22 0a 20  | [.    "SYSOP". |
00000130  20 5d 2c 0a 20 20 22 41  51 41 46 48 32 43 67 42  | ],.  "AQAFH2CgB|
00000140  33 4f 4f 61 53 76 46 69  42 4e 54 49 47 33 49 61  |3OOaSvFiBNTIG3Ia|
00000150  68 32 65 41 52 74 32 7a  49 77 76 4e 4a 4b 68 73  |h2eARt2zIwvNJKhs|
00000160  79 69 68 33 30 33 6b 59  58 69 59 57 58 5a 39 54  |yih303kYXiYWXZ9T|
00000170  38 69 41 22 3a 20 5b 0a  20 20 20 20 22 74 68 65  |8iA": [.    "the|
00000180  20 64 6f 63 74 6f 72 22  0a 20 20 5d 0a 7d 0a 6a  | doctor".  ].}.j|
00000190  73 6f 6e 2d 65 6e 64 0d  0a 0a 0d 0a 0d 0a 0d 0a  |son-end.........|

(LF-terminated lines, not CRLF).
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