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Re: Encoding madness

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by: Billy G. (go-while) - Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:56 UTC

On 11.04.23 12:12, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> FWIW, the descriptions encoded in UTF-8 from the ftp.isc.org newsgroup
> file are here:
> http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/data/newsgroups.utf8
>
> It may facilitate your life :-)
>
> The conversions I found out to work are:
> - cn.* and han.* are encoded in gb18030;
> - fido7.*, medlux.* and relcom.* in koi8-r;
> - ukr.* in koi8-u;
> - nctu.*, ncu.* and tw.* in big5;
> - scout.forum.chinese and scout.forum.korean in big5;
> - eternal-september.*, fido.* and fr.* in utf-8;
> - all the others fit well in cp1252.

thanks!

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