Re: Testing SNAP v1.1.3, take two

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Marc S. Ressl wrote:
> On 29 feb, 16:13, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>> > On 02/28/2012 08:11 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>>
>> >> It's whatever you get when you hold option and type the keys on a
>> >> IIgs.
>> >> Holding Shift-Option gets you MouseText. Unfortunately, SNAP doesn't
>> >> do
>> >> any
>> >> MIME encoding, so when these articles get injected.... "What should we
>> >> do
>> >> with these characters out of ASCII range? Who knows?"
>>
>> > You might want to include a "Content-Type:" header with some value that
>> > makes sense.
>>
>> > Or if you want to be fancy, convert from the IIgs native encoding to
>> > something smarter like ISO-8859-1 or even Unicode (does NNTP handle
>> > UTF-8 these days?). As long as you stick to a 256 or less character set
>> > (i.e. the native GSOS encoding, whatever that is...) you should be able
>> > to do it with a very simple table.
>>
>> Mr. Wannop read your suggestion, and I also made a suggestion to him.
>>
>> From the looks of things, having the ability to post articles with
>> MouseText
>> characters is, practically speaking, useless (even though SNAP can
>> properly
>> parse and display its own articles with those characters). The next
>> version
>> of SNAP is going to filter out these non-standard characters.
>>
>> As for UTF-8 and NNTP, the standard is built around 7-bit ASCII messages.
>> Anything else is supposed to be encoded, whether by quoted-printable or
>> base64. Of course people write newsreaders (and we mostly get this with
>> non-Latin character set languages) that post raw, unencoded 8-bit data.
>> It's
>> a "naughty" thing to do, but most article parsers can handle it if the
>> programmer is clever enough to use heuristics.
>>
>> --
>> ]DF$
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> 
> ...
> 
> Somebody seems to be having fun :-).
> 

I sure hope so. It looks like I've managed to ... indirectly ... delay the
release of v1.1.3. Mr. Wannop reports that because of the character set
differences between the Macintosh and the IIgs, he has decided to create a
new display font for SNAP.

(Also, as an aside, this should be the first genuine UTF-8 article sent out
from Mac GUI. Yay.)

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