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  • Non-UTF-8 NNTP posts incorrectly exported with CHRS: CP437

    From Carlos Navarro@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 27 06:06:59 2026
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/work_items/1259

    If you post a message to an area using an NNTP client configured with ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 as the character set, it gets exported to Fidonet with CHRS: CP437 (instead of LATIN-1). This causes non-ASCII characters (accented vowels, etc.) to not display correctly in FTN editors - they don't convert properly.

    I think SBBSecho does this (I see it checks if the content is UTF-8, and if not, and if it's not pure ASCII, it assigns CP437), but I suspect this isn't something trivial to fix...
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    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 27 11:09:54 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/work_items/1259#note_10446

    Does the original NNTP-posted message have the charset specified in its header? You can view the message headers with smbutil and copy and paste them here.
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  • From Carlos Navarro@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Sep 27 12:13:05 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/work_items/1259#note_10448

    Yes. A couple examples:

    From a message posted with SeaMonkey:
    ```
    Editor Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2
    OtherHeader X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://localhost:119
    OtherHeader MIME-Version: 1.0
    OtherHeader Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed OtherHeader Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    ```

    Another with Claws-Mail:
    ```
    OtherHeader X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
    OtherHeader MIME-Version: 1.0
    OtherHeader Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
    OtherHeader Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    ```
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)