Hi all,

I'm hoping for some help in resolving a sporadic issue with
charset rendering in slrn.

I'm using slrn 1.0.3 on a BSD shell at panix.com (via PuTTY on a
Windows laptop), and the relevant bits of my .slrnrc file are
here...

% charset display iso-8859-1
charset display utf-8

% set fallback_charset "utf-8"
set fallback_charset "iso-8859-1"

% set editor_command "nano -b -r 66"
set editor_command "pico -z -t -r66 -Q \"> \" %s"
charset editor "utf-8"

What is most noticeably causing problems is a quote character (")
that leads the subject header from some posters. When I view it
in the article window, all is fine. When I open the thread, the
character rendering changes in the article list (but the article
view is fine), and when I start a reply, the character rendering
is also wonky.

Any ideas for me? Details follow to illustrate the issue.

Ted

When I open the group I see this...

slrn 1.0.3 ** Press '?' for help, 'q' to quit. ** Server: news.panix.com
1! - 7777 14:[Bob ] 2 “One choice that may have saved them”
-> - 1:[Rob D. ] 3 Forthcoming book.

When I select the first thread, I see this...

-> D 14:[Bob ] <80><9C>One choice that may have saved them”
2! - 7777 22:[theise ] └─Re: “One choice that mahave saved them”
3 - 1:[Rob D. ] 3 Forthcoming book.

[4/5 unread] Group: alt.recovery.aa --
1/3 (All)
Path: reader1.panix.com!panix!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-septe
From: Bob <no_email@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.recovery.aa
Subject: “One choice that may have saved them”
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:16:18 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <un9rj1$9ntp$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:16:18 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me;
posting-host="f0973158ae889fef4b03117110203040";
User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:7KYzfQsiq+C546SojExx7ENBj7w=
sha1:OzZWTubwE2DlcspCwDPG8D69Qw4=
Xref: panix alt.recovery.aa:1001546

When I start a follow-up article, I see this…

Newsgroups: alt.recovery.aa
From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Subject: Re: ??One choice that may have saved them”
References: <un9rj1$9ntp$1@dont-email.me>
Organization: My own, such as it is
Followup-To:

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:16:18 -0000 (UTC),
Bob <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Path: reader1.panix.com!panix!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-s$
> From: Bob <no_email@invalid.invalid>
> Newsgroups: alt.recovery.aa
> Subject: “One choice that may have saved them”
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:16:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
> Lines: 14
> Message-ID: <un9rj1$9ntp$1@dont-email.me>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Injection-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:16:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f0973158ae889fef4b0311711020304$
> User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad)
> Cancel-Lock: sha1:7KYzfQsiq+C546SojExx7ENBj7w=sha1:OzZWTubwE2DlcspCwDPG8D69$
> Xref: panix alt.recovery.aa:1001546
>

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:35:51 -0000 (UTC),
Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hoping for some help in resolving a sporadic issue with
> charset rendering in slrn.
>
> I'm using slrn 1.0.3 on a BSD shell at panix.com (via PuTTY on a
> Windows laptop), and the relevant bits of my .slrnrc file are
> here...
>
> % charset display iso-8859-1
> charset display utf-8
>
> % set fallback_charset "utf-8"
> set fallback_charset "iso-8859-1"
>
> % set editor_command "nano -b -r 66"
> set editor_command "pico -z -t -r66 -Q \"> \" %s"
> charset editor "utf-8"
>
>
> What is most noticeably causing problems is a quote character (")
> that leads the subject header from some posters. When I view it
> in the article window, all is fine. When I open the thread, the
> character rendering changes in the article list (but the article
> view is fine), and when I start a reply, the character rendering
> is also wonky.

I think this has been resolved. An admin at my ISP noted that the
installed slrn was in fact 1.0.3a, it just didn't idenytify itself
with the trailing "a."

More to the point, he also noticed that it was an old 32-bit
build. He made a new build at 64 bits and using newer libraries
(especially slang). The character rendering seems to be good now.

--
Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA