Re: [Xnews] Alright, anyone want to help me set up Mime Proxy?

Patrick Lamaizière's response:

-Lost wrote:

OK, I've finally got it sorted. I restarted with a fresh INI.
Apparently something I had configured was causing a crash the moment
I opened a Japanese newsgroup.

Hummm. There is a bug somewhere... Could you send me your old .ini ?

E-mail sent. Make sure to let me know if it is something that I did
horribly wrong in configuration or if it was just a bug or whatever.

Now my question is this... can I configure numerous
client_decoding_charsets?

You can have a configuration per proxy with different parameters.
By sample i use one proxy with client_decoding_charset = windows-1252
(for Xnews) and one other with client_decoding_charset = utf-8 (for
Knode)

[proxies]

; server_alias = local_port_number, remote_host, remote_port_number
[,protocol]
; protocol is optional, should be nntp, pop, smtp, incoming_smtp or
none.

davenulle = 4900, 192.168.1.3, 119, nntp
dave_utf8 = 4901, 192.168.1.3, 119, nntp

[davenulle]
charsets = us-ascii, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, utf-8
; client charset for outgoing articles
client_charset = windows-1252

; client charset for incoming articles (if not set, client_charset is
used) client_decoding_charset = windows-1252
....

[dave_utf8]
; client charset for outgoing articles
client_charset = utf-8

; client charset for incoming articles (if not set, client_charset is
used) client_decoding_charset = utf-8
....

Gotcha! That made it much clearer.

I *still* cannot seem to view Japanese characters. Instead it uses
"approximation" or transliteration.

Yes.

Specifically the headers I'm viewing are:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Yet, I've also seen some ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1.
It appears it may have something to do with the "8bit" part?

So that's my dilemna, I just want to view Chinese/Japanese
characters.

I'm sorry but you can't do it with Xnews. Mime-proxy only translates
the characters set of the article to the characters set of Xnews
(windows-1252 on Western Windows). So you can't see Chinese or
Japanese characters with Xnews.

Ah, OK! I guess that pretty much sums it up.

So, basically I need a news reader that can use more than one character
set? Preferrably a Unicode one, right?

Thanks again for your patience and help!

--
-Lost
Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am
kidding. No I am not.
.

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