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This is still a work-in-progress but I’m already using it to read some mailing lists (UTF-8; some in HTML) and some fr.* groups (mostly UTF-8, some ISO-8859-15, a little Windows-1252 – very little if any ISO-8859-1 that I can see).
This version supports only UTF-8 output, but supports posts in UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 and Windows-1252. The original “character set” conversions (TeX, ISO-8859-1-to-ASCII) assume most displays are ASCII (or DBCS ¹, for example, or some other character set that isn’t Latin1); they have been disabled in the process of retrofitting it with UTF-8 support.
In theory, on a modern system such as Linux it’s not difficult to make it support other character sets once it supports UTF-8; unfortunately, trn tries hard to run on ancient systems. It doesn’t even use curses, just bare termcap/terminfo ²; it uses a name I’ve never heard of to refer to termcap and terminfo; the code is still written in K&R C, with no enums.
⯅ Article selector
from a local newsgroup gated from number of mailing lists
⯅ Plain-text UTF-8 article
from W3C’s public-html-ig-zh mailing list
⯅ Plain-text ISO-8859-15 article
from fr.lettres.langue.francaise
- The likes of Big5, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, etc.
- We could argue that bare termcap/terminfo is more accessible (in the sense that it plays nicer with accessibility software), though.