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wmcbrine / MultiMail

Offline reader for QWK, Blue Wave, etc. Multi-platform, curses-based.
https://wmcbrine.com/MultiMail
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MultiMail has limited, archaic character set support #9

Open wmcbrine opened 6 years ago

wmcbrine commented 6 years ago

Modern terminals speak Unicode. So should MultiMail.

andy5995 commented 5 years ago

I'd be interested in working on this, but I'm not sure how to begin. Would you be willing to give me some starting tips?

andy5995 commented 5 years ago

I'll back out of this, better to let someone work on it who knows what they're doing ;)

rswindell commented 5 years ago

Synchronet-created QWK packets can contain CP437 or UTF-8 encoded message body text and header fields (e.g. to/from/subject), though CP437 is the default. The HEADERS.DAT includes an indicator ("utf8=true") to indicate to the reader that any non-ASCII characters for a particular message (body text and header fields) are indeed UTF-8 and not CP437.