Subject: Accented chars

From: Francois Donze <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 09:20:29 +0100 (French Winter)

I have little problems to create mails with accentuated chars and to=20
read mails with such chars. I tried many combinations in .pinerc
and pine.conf but failed. It seems that I can't set ISO char in 
my mails.

for example, if I compose a message with an é ( e with acute accent ), 
and then I postpone it, when I get it back the letter is changed
in =E29. 

If I receive a mail with such an accent, I read i which is the 7-bit 
corresponding char. 

The above happens when I choose ISO-8859-1 and show-all-characters=yes 

My system is a DECstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2A.

Any idea?
/francois

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From: Erik Lawaetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 14:16:47 +0100 (MET)

Francois Donze writes:

> for example, if I compose a message with an =E9 ( e with acute accent ),

This happens, as far as I understand PINE, because PINE immediately
interprets your input and converts it to MIME's quoted-printable
encoding before writing it to the mail file. The problem is, that it's
not redisplayed the way you would expect when you resume editing a
postponed mail, and consequently you suddenly see the quoted-printable
stuff. 

> If I receive a mail with such an accent, I read i which is the 7-bit

This should be a terminal problem since it's a problem with
bitstripping. You need stty -istrip, maybe more.

--Erik

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 11:18:24 -0500 (EST)

Yes, I believe there's some definite bugs in Pine when postpoing messages
with 8 bit characters in them. There's also a bug in Pine 3.05 for
displaying 8 bit characters on some systems. I don't have the patched
handy, but there are patched for it.

LL