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* Peter J Ross is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> In on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:56:39 +1000, Troy
> Piggins wrote:
>
>> I'm updating my UTF-8 page, but look here to see how to get it
>> working:
>>
>> http:// /~troy/slrn#utf8
>
> Two suggestions:
>
> 1. You write, "The above will give you the latest and greatest, but
> unofficial, slrn." It isn't unofficial, merely unreleased as a
> tarball.

Fair enough. Fixed now.

> 2. You mention Thomas Wiegner's patches but don't provide a link or
> instructions.

When I typed it I was more interested in quickly getting a
procedure up there so others could get the vanilla slrn compiled
and displaying correctly. It's now the weekend and I'll add the
jewellery ;-)

> Otherwise that looks very helpful (as does andrew's page), and
> provides me with further excuses for not writing any HTML myself. :-)

:-) If you look at the code, I wouldn't really call that html.
It was just plain text with

...

tags wrapping it.
Just a quick hack while the discussions about it here were still
warm. I'm converting it to html now.

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