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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:13:07 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:47:11 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles
as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be
parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.

A home-made cobbled together excuse which I doubt you could write and which
allows me to search hundreds of articles from dozens of groups in milliseconds
using regular expressions via the unix command line and filter out the crap
and the good stuff in a far more complex way than any reader program can
manage.

Apart from falling on the floor the moment anyone uses a specified 8-bit
character set.

It didn't fall on the floor - its just bytes. Its how 3rd party software
interprets it thats the issue. UTF8 is supported out the box by most modern
linux/unix terminals & editors so character sets weren't a consideration.
I'm genuinely surprised to find out that current software in 2015 still uses
code pages. Couldn't be much more out of date if it used EBCDIC.

Anyway, this is a discussion for another group.

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