Subj : Non-UTF-8 NNTP posts incorrectly exported with CHRS: CP437
To   : GitLab issue in main/sbbs
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Sep 27 2026 06:06:59

open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/work_items/1259

If you post a message to an area using an NNTP client configured with ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 as the character set, it gets exported to Fidonet with CHRS: CP437 (instead of LATIN-1). This causes non-ASCII characters (accented vowels, etc.) to not display correctly in FTN editors - they don't convert properly.

I think SBBSecho does this (I see it checks if the content is UTF-8, and if not, and if it's not pure ASCII, it assigns CP437), but I suspect this isn't something trivial to fix...
--- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

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