On 6/6/26 10:18 AM, Peter Markley wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> Someone using Thunderbird or Chris Cason would have to investigate and determine
>> what the exact problem is.
> 
> I was browsing a very old forum thread of mine (posted under a lost account
> "Quartz") and noticed the problem happening to messages there also:
>
https://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.4e5f0af057ee503f2b8e18870%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=424594
> &moff=10

I just loaded things in Thunderbird.

   1. My 2nd message on this thread is still missing the line that says 
"what does or doesn't trigger it" (presumably thanks to the 
typographical apostrophe in "doesn't")

   2. My old messages from 2011 mentioned above are INTACT when viewed 
with Thunderbird. See attached screenshot comparing Thunderbird vs. web view

I believe this is because the problem is currently affecting both input 
and output on the web interface. (This is evident because when you press 
"preview message" any lines with UTF-8 chars are erased even before 
anything is posted/stored, then if you press "edit message" to re-open 
the edit dialog the lines are still gone--in the exact field where you 
typed them moments before.)

If my hypothesis is true, this means UTF-8 input is still possible when 
posting a message via Thunderbird.

As a test, here's a line with an upside-down face emoji (U+1F643), 
enclosed between two chains of equals signs:

=======
   🙃
=======

I believe this will succeed to post in the Newsgroup intact, so that 
Thunderbird sees the emoji but the web interface does not.

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