Subject: Re: wrong characterset

From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 28 Jul 1994 08:31:35 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Martin Jangowski) says:

>From time to time I receive mail sent with a different charset than the 
>us-ascii my linux uses. Pine acommpanies this with a message like 
>
>[The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] 
>[Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
>[Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]
>
>Unfortunately I have no idea how to change my character set to ISO-8859-1.

    There are two things you need to change.  First, do you see the ISO
Latin-1 characters correctly?  That is, a with umlaut, or do you see
the US-ASCII equivalent of d ?  Or do you see a different character
altogether?
    If the character is displayed as it should be, then all you need
to do is set your .pinerc so that it explicitly states your value for
the charset is ISO-8859-1 (failing to specify it means US-ASCII is
assumed).

    Not being familiar with Linux, I can't give you precise directions
on what to do to get the correct characters to display if they don't --
you need a font which makes use of the ISO 8859-1 encoding.  I'm not
sure if you see an IBM code page, where you see incorrect characters,
but in the ``extended ASCII'' range, in which case a code page like CP819
would work, or just ASCII equivalents (d, v, and | for umlauted a, o,
and u), in which case you need to get an 8-bit path to the display (and
possibly an 8859-1 font).  Once you get the correct characters to display,
you can suppress the notice you quoted above by setting the .pinerc
(or /usr/local/lib/pine.conf) charset value to ISO-8859-1.
    Perhaps another Linux user who has been able to view Latin-1
characters with Pine can outline Linux-specific steps needed.

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Jangowski)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 20:59:03 GMT

Hello!

Clues, anyone?

	Martin

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