slrn does not correctly show non-7-bit chars when running with a UTF-8 environment but shows them instead as <XX> chars. <http://piggo.com/~troy/slrn#utf8> has some details about enabling it. Seems current svn does support UTF-8. Could you please upgrade accordingly? Fedora is shipping with UTF-8 enabled from several releases now.
sorry, this bug should have been against rhel, not against fedora. With F8 at least, everything works fine.
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UTF-8 support has been introduced in slrn-0.9.9. Rebase is needed to enable UTF-8 support. Current version in RHEL-5 is 0.9.8.1pl1.
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Version 0.9.9pl1 brings a lot of fixes and new features (UTF-8, Mail-Reply-To header, new slrn.sl macro file) added since version 0.9.8.1pl1. See http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/changes.txt for more details.
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