Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

$ The Millionaire $
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On 23 Aug 2021 at 01:36p, The Millionaire pondered and said...

Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

Hello there.

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On 23 Aug 2021 at 01:36p, The Millionaire pondered and said...

Hello there.

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Have I missed much with Mystic? Is there a new release out yet?

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On 23 Aug 2021, The Millionaire said the following...

Have I missed much with Mystic? Is there a new release out yet?

No official A47 release yet, but the pre-alpha seems to be pretty stable.

There may be a full release sometime this month, but subject to change.


Jay

... I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

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On 23 Aug 2021 at 03:25p, The Millionaire pondered and said...

Have I missed much with Mystic? Is there a new release out yet?

No, but perhaps soon? not sure.

There's pre-alpha stuff going on (A47) and you can find a link to that build
on the wiki.

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The Millionaire wrote to All <=-

Boy, it's been a long time since I've been here. :-)

Gee, we've all missed you SOOOOO much! ;-)



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Hello The Millionaire!

On 23 Aug 2021, The Millionaire said the following...

Have I missed much with Mystic? Is there a new release out yet?

A47 is still in prealpha but I believe there will be a release very soon (someone mentioned a couple of weeks). The prealpha works fine, though.

Best regards
Zip

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Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

Good morning Shib-illionare :-) Shiba coin 2 the moon!

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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Am 23.08.21 schrieb The Millionaire@21:1/183 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo The,

Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

Hi :)

Could you check your codepage settings? Because some characters that
you've entered don't come through correctly...

Regards,
Anna

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Am 23.08.21 schrieb The Millionaire@21:1/183 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo The,

Hi :)

Could you check your codepage settings? Because some characters that
you've entered don't come through correctly...

Regards,
Anna

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I am on IPad. I don’t know why it does it though.

$ The Millionaire $
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acn wrote (2021-08-24):

Am 23.08.21 schrieb The Millionaire@21:1/183 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo The,

Boy, itΓÇÖs been a long time since IΓÇÖve been here. :-)

Hi :)

Could you check your codepage settings? Because some characters that
you've entered don't come through correctly...

Charset is correct:

CHRS: UTF-8 4

and all characters come through correctly:

Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

More of an OpenXP problem. (Not sure if extended characters are allowed in the subject though).

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acn wrote (2021-08-24):

Charset is correct:

and all characters come through correctly:

More of an OpenXP problem. (Not sure if extended characters are allowed in the subject though).

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When I use an apostrophe, it translates weirdly for some reason.

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The wrote (2021-08-24):

When I use an apostrophe, it translates weirdly for some reason.

The typesetter apostrophe ’ you use is encoded in three bytes in UTF-8 (hex: E2 80 99, decimal: 226 128 153). If another mail reader cannot decode UTF-8 and decodes it as CP437 (IBM437, MS-DOS US charset) you get three characters

E2: Γ
80: Ç
99: Ö

Alternatively you can use the typewriter apostrophe ' which is the same ASCII character in all charsets.

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No official A47 release yet, but the pre-alpha seems to be pretty stable. There may be a full release sometime this month, but subject to change. Jay

interesting, thanks for the update on that. i have never done a mystic
upgrade before... i hope its not too risky... i do back up everything in the mystic dir so if something breaks i do have mulitpal backups. but i am still carefull.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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No, but perhaps soon? not sure.
There's pre-alpha stuff going on (A47) and you can find a link to that build on the wiki.

i just hope it will still work on slackware 14.2 :-)

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 25 Aug 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

interesting, thanks for the update on that. i have never done a mystic upgrade before... i hope its not too risky... i do back up everything in the mystic dir so if something breaks i do have mulitpal backups. but i
am still carefull.

I remember the upgrade from A45 to A46 being pretty easy, there really wasn't much to do depending on how much you customized your board. A47 may be a little more involved (again, depending on how much you customized your board) as there are changes to some prompts and added screens in the message editor.

But yes, make sure you have a backup in case everything goes south and you should be good.


Jay

... A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ÿ

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I remember the upgrade from A45 to A46 being pretty easy, there really wasn't much to do depending on how much you customized your board. A47 may be a little more involved (again, depending on how much you
customized your board) as there are changes to some prompts and added screens in the message editor.

Oh ok good to know. ya i have also created a BBS-Dev system too, in order to test a major change like that on the dev system - so i dont interrupt my PROD BBS. Some day i hope that my BBS is as glorius as everyone elses here. i know its a work in progress, and my board is not even a year old yet... but slowly and surely its making progress. :-)

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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The typesetter apostrophe ’ you use is encoded in three bytes in UTF-8 (hex: E2 80 99, decimal: 226 128 153). If another mail reader cannot decode UTF-8 and decodes it as CP437 (IBM437, MS-DOS US charset) you get three characters

E2: Γ 80: Ç 99: Ö

Odd, while I fully concur its the weirdy UTF8 character, I don't get the characters you're showing for E2:80:99, can't tell you if they're differing hex values here... This is in DOS6.x but it might be what the tosser does with them too.

Spec


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Spectre wrote (2021-08-27):

The typesetter apostrophe ΓÇÖ you use is encoded in three bytes in
UTF-8 (hex: E2 80 99, decimal: 226 128 153). If another mail reader
cannot decode UTF-8 and decodes it as CP437 (IBM437, MS-DOS US
charset) you get three characters

E2: Γ 80: Ç 99: Ö

Odd, while I fully concur its the weirdy UTF8 character, I don't get the characters you're showing for E2:80:99, can't tell you if they're
differing hex values here... This is in DOS6.x but it might be what the tosser does with them too.

I guess we are stuck in a UTF-8 -> CP437 misinterpretation loop. I give you one UTF-8 char, you see two or three CP437 chars. I quote these chars UTF-8 encoded and so on ...

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Spectre wrote (2021-08-27):

I guess we are stuck in a UTF-8 -> CP437 misinterpretation loop. I give you one UTF-8 char, you see two or three CP437 chars. I quote these chars UTF-8 encoded and so on ...

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When I do not use apostrophes, problem is then solved.

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Re: IΓÇÖm Back!!!
By: Oli to acn on Tue Aug 24 2021 09:14 pm

Could you check your codepage settings? Because some characters
that you've entered don't come through correctly...

Charset is correct:

CHRS: UTF-8 4

and all characters come through correctly:

Boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. :-)

They don't appear correctly for me, even in your quote. But I think it has to do with a character translation issue with the reader I'm using (I'm actually using my own message reader I developed for Synchronet; I started working on a fix but it seems it's still not translating the characters properly).

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