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Does MT-NewsWatcher support the yEnc encoding that is showing up on binary groups a lot now?

April 26, 2017binary encoding groups mt-newswatcher support yEnc

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Does MT-NewsWatcher support the yEnc encoding that is showing up on binary groups a lot now?

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MT-NW 3.1 does not support yEnc, even via external decoders. The main issue here is that yEnc-encoded messages contain non-ASCII characters that MT-NW 3.1 strips out when saving the messages to disk. An ugly workaround is to use the ‘Export’ command, but then you have to drag the saved file onto a helper app manually. MT-NW 3.2 (on OS X) does support decoding of yEnc posts (but not posting of yEnc). I have not committed to releasing a version of MT-NW that supports yEnc on OS 9, simply because I do not have the time to develop and test on two different operating systems.