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    From Karloch@VERT to All on Thu Jul 2 20:35:36 2015
    Hi everyone,

    I've been hosting a Synchronet BBS for years, but due to people talking in languagues different than English, extended ASCII characters are not displayed or written correctly. For example: ¤   ‚ ¡ ¢ £ ­ ¨

    I wonder if there is a way for Synchronet to use the right encoding. The place where I suffer this most is in the Fidonet R34 area (Spain).

    Any ideas?

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  • From Ragnarok@ragnarok@docksud.com.ar to Karloch on Fri Jul 3 14:11:55 2015
    El 02/07/15 a las 16:35, Karloch escibió:
    Hi everyone,

    I've been hosting a Synchronet BBS for years, but due to people talking in languagues different than English, extended ASCII characters are not displayed
    or written correctly. For example: � � � � � � � �

    I wonder if there is a way for Synchronet to use the right encoding. The place
    where I suffer this most is in the Fidonet R34 area (Spain).

    Any ideas?

    Hi, I use Synchronet and my ansis files are on cp850 (Español)

    You must use a telnet client that handle that encodings like SyncTerm or mTelnet

    You can check my board via SyncTerm at bbs.docksud.com.ar

    Saludos!
  • From Digital Man@VERT to Karloch on Fri Jul 3 15:28:35 2015
    Re: International encodings
    By: Karloch to All on Thu Jul 02 2015 08:35 pm

    Hi everyone,

    I've been hosting a Synchronet BBS for years, but due to people talking in languagues different than English, extended ASCII characters are not displayed or written correctly. For example: ¤   ‚ ¡ ¢ £ ­ ¨

    I wonder if there is a way for Synchronet to use the right encoding. The place where I suffer this most is in the Fidonet R34 area (Spain).

    Any ideas?

    Synchronet does not currently support anything but US-ASCII and CP437. If the client is configured to use another character set and the message area contains
    messages using that character set, then Synchronet would just pass the bytes through and that'd work fine, but then "extended ASCII" (CP437) won't look right.

    digital man

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  • From Karloch@VERT to Ragnarok on Sat Jul 4 12:09:53 2015
    Re: Re: International encodings
    By: Ragnarok to Karloch on Fri Jul 03 2015 14:11:55

    You must use a telnet client that handle that encodings like SyncTerm or mTelnet

    Good enough advice, I will try it right now. Thank you so much!

    Saludos,
    Carlos

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  • From Karloch@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Jul 4 12:11:02 2015
    Re: International encodings
    By: Digital Man to Karloch on Fri Jul 03 2015 15:28:35

    Synchronet does not currently support anything but US-ASCII and CP437. If the client is configured to use another character set and the message area contains messages using that character set, then Synchronet would just pass the bytes through and that'd work fine, but then "extended ASCII" (CP437) won't look right.

    So good explanation, I will try client-side encoding.

    Thank you!
    Carlos

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