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Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe

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Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>For your newsgroups file:
>>>free.snipe      Release the wading bird.
>>           ^
>>Not a tab character; your composer isn't entering one

>>Can you enter it directly with the character code?

>>It's probably not going to prevent it from being appended to the
>>newsgroups file on most servers that create it.

>Hmm, I don't understand that, I definitely used the tab key.  

This is a long-standing problem. Certain composers in newsreaders and
certain text editors are loathe to allow the use of a tab character, even
though it's ASCII, substituting a string of spaces. It's a feature but I
call it broken behavior. Well, that screws up the newsgroups file line
in a newgroup message. The problem is well known and News servers are
programmed to substitute the required tab upon processing the newgroup
message or creating the group.

>Whatever, E-S has created it, as have aioe and Viper (which 
>I think is a Highwinds reseller).  

Right, but the issue is whether the tab appears in the newsgroup file
itself.

You can see what INN does upon processing the newsgroups file line by
downloading the sample active and newsgroups files at

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG

as those files aren't updated unless the newsgroups file line is in good
syntax but the tab substitution should be made.

>>You've got a UTF-8 character in your sigfile but your MIME header says
>>ISO-8859-1. I didn't notice that earlier.

>MacSOUP does use UTF-8 when it has to, but falls back to lesser
>encodings if it doesn't need the full UTF-8 charset.  I think "Latin
>capital I with diaeresis" is an ISO-8859-1 character but I'm out of 
>my comfort zone here.

You are correct that it's in the Latin 1 character set as Hex 00CF. I see the
UTF-8 multibyte character instead. It doesn't display correctly for me unless
I set the terminal emulation to display UTF-8.

><https://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/ISO-8859-1/list.htm>

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Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 16:24 +0000
  Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-22 18:47 +0100
    Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 18:49 +0000
      Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-22 20:25 +0100
        Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 22:56 +0000
          Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-23 13:10 +0100

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