Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Enabling Character Translation

This is an experimental feature, which may not work as expected and may introduce unexpected side effects.

Exchange of articles that contain national character sets between different systems may fail because the newsreader isn't able to properly support character translation.

Changi may help in such situations with its builtin character translation function. To enable it, you must either set the environment variable CHANGICHARTRANFILE or call Changi with option -T and specify the name of the character translation file.

If character translation is enabled, Changi will convert subject lines and article bodies. The remaining header lines won't be touched. Only articles transmitted for reading and posts are converted. Articles received by transfer (IHAVE) will be left alone.

Note that Changi is not able to distinguish between clients who need translation and clients that won't. It's only possible to switch it on or off globally.


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URL: changi/manual/translate.html
Created: 5 November 1996
Revised: 21 November 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de