Hello, All!
Is it possible to make synchronet be compartible with CP866 charset that is common for Cyrillic part of Fidonet?
Is it possible to make synchronet be compartible with CP866 charset
that is common for Cyrillic part of Fidonet?
It's possible, but not already support/recognized. What is your
interest, just that the tosser (SBBSecho) exports messages with the appropriate CHRS kludge or that the user could use a CP866-terminal program and have other charsets (UTF-8 or CP437) converted to CP866 on
the fly before sending to the user?
Hello, Digital!
10 Mar 20 17:25, you wrote to me:
Is it possible to make synchronet be compartible with CP866 charset
that is common for Cyrillic part of Fidonet?
It's possible, but not already support/recognized. What is your interest, just that the tosser (SBBSecho) exports messages with the appropriate CHRS kludge or that the user could use a CP866-terminal program and have other charsets (UTF-8 or CP437) converted to CP866 on the fly before sending to the user?
The main goal is to read and send messages in CP866 Echo from UTF-8 terminal and web, with the appropriate CHARS kludge of course. Converting on the fly also will be nice. So that any user who logged in can read russian fidonet echos.
The main goal is to read and send messages in CP866 Echo from UTF-8
terminal and web, with the appropriate CHARS kludge of course.
Converting on the fly also will be nice. So that any user who
logged in can read russian fidonet echos.
Interesting. So if you're using a UTF-8 terminal, which is capable of
all the CP866 charactesr (and a lot more), why would you want to send CP866? That seems... weird. You can't send UTF-8 encoded messages in Cyrillic echoes?
Hello, Digital!
10 Mar 20 20:56, you wrote to me:
The main goal is to read and send messages in CP866 Echo from UTF-8
terminal and web, with the appropriate CHARS kludge of course.
Converting on the fly also will be nice. So that any user who
logged in can read russian fidonet echos.
Interesting. So if you're using a UTF-8 terminal, which is capable of all the CP866 charactesr (and a lot more), why would you want to send CP866? That seems... weird. You can't send UTF-8 encoded messages in Cyrillic echoes?
No, I can't, because fidonet readers mostly don't have UTF-8 support, so CP866 is primary charset for all cyrillic echos :(
Cyrillic UTF-8 in unreadable when using extended-ASCII
But yes, it's possible that CP866 support could be added to
Synchronet. I'm not sure what terminal program one would use
to test CP866 support (not SyncTERM).
No, I can't, because fidonet readers mostly don't have UTF-8
support, so CP866 is primary charset for all cyrillic echos :(
Cyrillic UTF-8 in unreadable when using extended-ASCII
UTF-8 is the future, I have to imagine that eventually those Cyrillic echoes will switch to it. And Synchronet transcodes UTF-8 -> CP437 on
the fly already.
But yes, it's possible that CP866 support could be added to
Synchronet. I'm not sure what terminal program one would use to test
CP866 support (not SyncTERM).
asBut yes, it's possible that CP866 support could be added to
Synchronet. I'm not sure what terminal program one would use to test CP866 support (not SyncTERM).
Putty can. If CP866 support will be added into Synchronet on same conditions
CP437 I will became the beta-tester of this feature (and can spread wide this in Russia and Ukraine)
Hello, Digital!
11 Mar 20 10:19, you wrote to me:
No, I can't, because fidonet readers mostly don't have UTF-8
support, so CP866 is primary charset for all cyrillic echos :(
Cyrillic UTF-8 in unreadable when using extended-ASCII
UTF-8 is the future, I have to imagine that eventually those Cyrillic echoes will switch to it. And Synchronet transcodes UTF-8 -> CP437 on the fly already.
I know, but this will not happen in nearest future because GoldED (the most popultar fidonet mail editor) doesn't support UTF-8 :(
But yes, it's possible that CP866 support could be added to
Synchronet. I'm not sure what terminal program one would use to test CP866 support (not SyncTERM).
Putty can. If CP866 support will be added into Synchronet on same conditions as CP437 I will became the beta-tester of this feature (and can spread wide this in Russia and Ukraine)
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