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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to All on Tue Apr 18 15:03:36 2023
    Is there a way to make Mystic insert the CHRS kludge?

    Carlos

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Carlos Navarro on Wed Apr 19 11:35:35 2023
    Hello Carlos!

    18 Apr 23 15:03, you wrote to all:

    Is there a way to make Mystic insert the CHRS kludge?

    Ask goor00 to add it in the next version?

    Andrew

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Carlos Navarro on Wed Apr 19 15:02:58 2023
    It looks like the mystic editor won't add in the CHRS kludge, but you can include it if you're using mutil to post your message, like this one has.


    Jay

    ... I like chicken, I like liver

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  • From Alejandro Filimonchuk@4:900/102 to Andrew Leary on Fri Apr 21 10:34:53 2023
    Hi!
    Hello Carlos!

    18 Apr 23 15:03, you wrote to all:

    Is there a way to make Mystic insert the CHRS kludge?

    Ask goor00 to add it in the next version?

    Yeah, I will add up my vote. Please, Lord g00r00, we need a CHRS kludge! Fidonet Z4 really need it!! :D (and, of course, spanish Z2)

    ... "3 things make a movie great: Horses, cowboys, and horses." - Potter

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to g00r00 on Sat Apr 22 11:52:59 2023
    21 Apr 2023 10:34, Alejandro Filimonchuk wrote to Andrew Leary:

    Is there a way to make Mystic insert the CHRS kludge?

    Ask goor00 to add it in the next version?

    Yeah, I will add up my vote. Please, Lord g00r00, we need a CHRS
    kludge! Fidonet Z4 really need it!! :D (and, of course, spanish Z2)

    If a message posted on a Mystic BBS contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. accented vocals,  ‚¡¢£, or the n with tilde, ¤), message readers may not know how to decode it, as there is no CHRS kludge.

    Some editors that support multiple charsets may assume CP437 if no CHRS is present (I have it configured that way in my GoldED). But it would be nice if Mystic supported this kludge, like most modern FTN software. See FTS-5003 for info about this standard.

    Carlos

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Jay Harris on Sat Apr 22 12:08:07 2023
    19 Apr 2023 15:02, you wrote to me:

    It looks like the mystic editor won't add in the CHRS kludge, but you
    can include it if you're using mutil to post your message, like this
    one has.

    I assume (I don't know Mystic) that's a tool you can use to post text files to a messagebase. So, did you manually insert the kludges (CHRS, REPLY and the funny one) in the file?

    Carlos

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Carlos Navarro on Sat Apr 22 07:57:01 2023
    On 22 Apr 2023, Carlos Navarro said the following...

    I assume (I don't know Mystic) that's a tool you can use to post text files to a messagebase. So, did you manually insert the kludges (CHRS, REPLY and the funny one) in the file?

    Yes, mutil can post text files which is what I did there. And also correct, I just manually added in the kludge lines at the top of the text file:

    echo -e "\01CHRS: CP437 2" > message.txt


    Jay

    ... I've got butterflies in my stomach, I need to quit eating caterpillars

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Alejandro Filimonchuk on Sun Apr 30 14:58:28 2023
    Yeah, I will add up my vote. Please, Lord g00r00, we need a CHRS kludge! Fidonet Z4 really need it!! :D (and, of course, spanish Z2)

    It is on the list to do. The issue right now is that Mystic only knows "ASCII" and "UTF-8" so I need to add a prompt/field to allow the user to set their ASCII codepage before I can add in the CHRS properly.

    My goal is to release A49 once we go some period of time without issues so that I can make larger changes for A50 which this would be a part of.

    ... Confucius say: "Man who runs behind car gets exhausted"

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  • From Björn Wiberg@2:201/137 to g00r00 on Mon May 1 11:42:37 2023
    Hello g00r00!

    Hope all is well!

    On 30 Apr 2023, g00r00 said the following...
    It is on the list to do. The issue right now is that Mystic only knows "ASCII" and "UTF-8" so I need to add a prompt/field to allow the user to set their ASCII codepage before I can add in the CHRS properly.

    Would it be sufficient to set CHRS according to the Default CodePage + Ask CodePage settings? (If Ask CodePage is set to Detect, it should hopefully be correct for each connection.)

    My goal is to release A49 once we go some period of time without issues
    so that I can make larger changes for A50 which this would be a part of.

    Sounds great! Thanks a lot! =)

    Best regards
    Bj”rn

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