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I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8. Tg->fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..
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Hi, Tommi!

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8. Tg->fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Telegram uses utf-8. In Fido I use cp866. So tg_BBS use cp866 as default if no other defined in @CHRS from Fido.

Have a nice carrot!
Brother Rabbit.

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Hi, Tommi!

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8. Tg->fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Is it what written by you?
https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/pic/60eab48c.jpg


Have a nice carrot!
Brother Rabbit.

... A good companion not only listens attentively, but pours the drink on time --- Use "%UserProfile %Tearline text" to customize tearline.
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Sunday July 11 2021 12:04, Brother Rabbit wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Hi, Tommi!

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8.

fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit

only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Telegram uses utf-8. In Fido I use cp866. So tg_BBS use cp866 as default if no
other defined in @CHRS from Fido.

But the direction from TG to Fido.. If UTF-8 is the native charset there, why not use it at least in non-russian echos?

'Tommi

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Sunday July 11 2021 12:06, Brother Rabbit wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Hi, Tommi!

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8.

fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit

only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Is it what written by you?
https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/pic/60eab48c.jpg

Yes. Scandinavian characters (öäå) did not make it to fido.. :(

'Tommi

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Hello, Tommi!

Monday July 12 2021 17:55, from Tommi Koivula -> Brother Rabbit:

But the direction from TG to Fido.. If UTF-8 is the native charset
there, why not use it at least in non-russian echos?

The TG-Fido gate script could have performed some more sophisticated charset manipulation. For example, if the TG UTF-8 message only consists of Latin-1 characters then let it be such in @CHRS.

Basically, you can iconv original message and test it against a list of charsets in some meaningful order to check which one convers into without an error. Do not assume the whole world is using either Latin-1 or Cyrillic, there are at least a bunch of Western European languages in between.

Best Regards, Nil
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Hi, Tommi!

Sunday July 11 2021 12:06, Brother Rabbit wrote to Tommi Koivula:

Hi, Tommi!

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8.

fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english 7bit

only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Is it what written by you?
https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/pic/60eab48c.jpg

Yes. Scandinavian characters (öäå) did not make it to fido.. :(

'Tommi

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How does the value of @CHRS correspond to the body of the message in this case? Perhaps I should set up the correct decoding in my GoldEd?
https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/pic/60f05da8.jpg


Have a nice carrot!
Brother Rabbit.

... A good companion not only listens attentively, but pours the drink on time --- Use "%UserProfile %Tearline text" to customize tearline.
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Hi, Tommi!

12 ¨î« 21 17:55, Tommi Koivula -> Brother Rabbit:

I wonder what is the native charset in telegram.. most likely utf-8.

fido seems to use CP866 all the time. No problems with english

7bit
only. But pound sign is not 7bit. (?????????)..

Telegram uses utf-8. In Fido I use cp866. So tg_BBS use cp866 as default
if no other defined in @CHRS from Fido.

But the direction from TG to Fido.. If UTF-8 is the native charset there, why not use it at least in non-russian echos?

I think it is a wise decision to use UTP-8 only in those echo conferences where it is explicitly allowed. In other cases, I consider it necessary to use eight bit encodings for backward compatibility.

Have nice nights.
Stas Mishchenkov.
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