Hello All!

Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

Egor

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Hello Egor Glukhov!

19 Jun 23 23:23:38, Egor Glukhov wrote to All:

Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

Looks good!

Michiel


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Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

Hello All!

Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

Egor

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Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does understand it.
... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
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Chris Jacobs wrote to Egor Glukhov <=-

Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

Hello All!

Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

Egor

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Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle
it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does
understand it. ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format
offline reader! --- MultiMail/Win v0.52

I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters. They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

In my editor (GVim), UTF-8 characters are not mangled, too.

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Hello Peicheng,

On Friday August 18 2023 13:32, you wrote to Chris Jacobs:

I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters.
They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

In addition to seting the code page to 65001, you also have to select a TrueType font like Lucide Console.

https://www.cryptosys.net/firmasat/commandline-font.html


Cheers, Michiel

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Peicheng Huang wrote to Chris Jacobs <=-

Chris Jacobs wrote to Egor Glukhov <=-

Egor Glukhov wrote to All <=-

Hello All!

Это сообщение кодировано в UTF-8. // Este
mensaje está codificado en UTF-8.

Egor

--- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0-dev
* Origin: Lyubertsy, MO (2:5020/736)

Works. Multimail does not underrstand it but at least does not mangle
it. MultiMail delegates answering to NotePad and NotePad does
understand it. ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format
offline reader! --- MultiMail/Win v0.52

I also use MultiMail/Win 0.52, but I can't see the UTF-8 characters.
They all became square boxes. (My Windows codepage set to 65001 UTF-8)

How to correctly show UTF-8 characters in Windows consle?

In my editor (GVim), UTF-8 characters are not mangled, too.

--- MultiMail/Win v0.52

I don't read UTF-8 in console. I read it in Notepad.
... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
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Re: utf-8 test
By: Michiel van der Vlist to Peicheng Huang on Fri Aug 18 2023 12:24 pm

Hello Peicheng,

In addition to seting the code page to 65001, you also have to select a TrueType font like Lucide Console.

https://www.cryptosys.net/firmasat/commandline-font.html

Thank you for the information.

I tried to use Lucida Console and several other fonts, still showing boxes..

https://imgur.com/a/PUkglID
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On 19 Aug 2023, Peicheng Huang said the following...

Thank you for the information.

I tried to use Lucida Console and several other fonts, still showing boxes..

That's a limitation of Multimail. I don't believe you'll ever be able to use UTF-8 properly in that application, but if you use an external editor that supports UTF-8 you should be able to read/write it properly.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: utf-8 test
By: Nicholas Boel to Peicheng Huang on Sun Aug 20 2023 08:42 am

That's a limitation of Multimail. I don't believe you'll ever be able to use UTF-8 properly in that application, but if you use an external editor that supports UTF-8 you should be able to read/write it properly.

Okay, maybe it will be improved after someone adding Unicode support.

I also tried MultiMail in Linux, with luit's help it can show UTF-8.

Run this command with LC_ALL/LANG set to en_US.UTF-8:
$ luit -encoding UTF-8 mm

Although UTF-8 charmap was selected, MultiMail currently still garbled some UTF-8 characters. Adding additional layer of UTF-8 to UTF-8 conversion by luit seems to be a workable solution.

To show CP437 ASCII art, luit's CP437 to UTF-8 conversion looks good:
$ luit -encoding CP437 mm
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