Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:06:24 +0200 Organization: the center of color Imaging for the color blind probono institute Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net bQIrr11KULO24AZXaPdjiwEwtlz9yF+VtQhI0gtycE5Fi+/3F7 X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZEN0aQxbzrVL+Y/MvqRTTNr84RY= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22306 comp.sys.mac.system:60263 In article , Darrin "Doc" O'Leary wrote: > For your reference, records indicate that > dorayme wrote: > > > Do you liberally use characters that appear badly on MT_NW to make an > > extra point about the need for a new usenet reader for Mac? > > I don’t do anything; I just let the Mac be a Mac. And that means this > NSTextView is doing smart quotes and other substitutions as I type. MT-NW > could hand it just fine if it defaulted to UTF-8 encoding, or followed the > Content-Type header. You can “fix” it for a message, as I recall, by > manually selecting said encoding from a menu. So MT-NW is quite capable of > doing it, it just *doesn’t*, for whatever reason. > > So while it does further make the point, I’m not trying to make life > difficult for people who are still using MT-NW. If anyone knows what it > needs to properly display UTF-8 messages, let me know and I can fix it on > my end. I have to thank you Sir! In MT-NewsWatcher: Preferences> Languages Set reading news to Western (mac OS Roman) Decode unlabeled articles as Unicode UTF-8 UNCHECK the Try to detect encodings box Set send... to Unicode UTF-8 That said: YOUR reader is the only one that I've encountered that gives this kind of jibberish. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography