Subject: ISBN characters...

From: Ippokraths Karakasoglou <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 14:08:04 -0600 (CST)

I 've selected ISBN-8859-7 to be my character set in my .pinerc, which is 
suposed to be Greek, but I haven't noticed any difference...

What is supposesd to happen?

Thanx.

Ippokratis

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:04:01 -0800 (PST)

Ippokraths,

Don't you want ISO-8859-7?  You also need a terminal that supports the
ISO-8859-7 character set.  Pine does not do any translations on either 
composed or recieved messages.  It assumes that you have set your 
terminal to match what is specified in the character-set variable.

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:10:27 +0100

Ippokraths Karakasoglou <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I 've selected ISBN-8859-7 to be my character set in my .pinerc,
> which is suposed to be Greek, but I haven't noticed any
> difference...  What is supposesd to happen?

ISBN is the International Standard Book Number, you'll hardly want
that.  The name of your charset is ISO-8859-1, I guess it stands for
International Standardization Organization.  You should only select
the Greek charset if you already have that alphabet on your keyboard
and screen.  Now if you send texts that contain non-ASCII letters they
will be labeled ISO-8859-7 and encoded quoted-printable so they can be
transmitted over ASCII wires and the right characters will be
displayed on the receiving side.