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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/917
While every other newsreader I've tried works fine in this regard, Thunderbird thought it wise to drop any support for DOS based codepages.. and while I would rather just request this just for Thunderbird itself, it may not be possible.
1) If Thunderbird can be detected upon initial connection, translate everything to UTF-8 for this client only.
Since the above is doubtful, an option for every client to suffer TB's shortcomings..
2) Add a command line option for nntpservice.js "-utf8" or something similar, to do this all of the time.
While option (2) will fix Thunderbird, most other newsreaders would suffer in regard to not being able to reply with the same character set (or as close as possible) as the original message.
I'd rather avoid this, if at all possible. I just don't know how it could be done.
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