Subject: Re: your mail

From: Marc Blanchard <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:06:29 -0800 (PST)

how do you enter foreign language characters into pine? anyone out there 
knows? meb

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 11:03:37 -0800 (GMT)

> how do you enter foreign language characters into pine? anyone out there 

	Well, for Chinese text I run pine in cxterm and then just enter
the text as a would in a text editor such as celvis (a vi clone with
2-Byte support).  Works fine....except there is no way to set the charset
to something standard....since there isn't a standard for Chinese in
MIME.  (Since the last time I checked.)

					Ed

Edward M. Greshko                       Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                        Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
Voice: +886-2-715-2222 x287             6/F, 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3
FAX  : +886-2-712-9197                  Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C

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From: Rheinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 11:30:35 -0500

Yep.  Just use Alt+three-digit-number.  E-mail me for details.

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From: Arsch Loch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:43:10 +0100

On 1 Feb 1995, Ed Greshko wrote:

> 2-Byte support).  Works fine...

    Here in Zürich, Switzerland, I type the foreign language of English
on the native Swiss-German keyboard.  If I were to want to write in one
of the native languages, like in German to describe the Föhn that one has
at times in the Alps, the keys for characters such as ä and ö and ü are
readily available on the keyboard.  Or if I were to write in French, those
keys à and é and è are also there.  And there are dead-keys for the ^ and
` and umlaut to allow me to type ô and Ä and ì and so on.  And I have keys
for ç and £ and ° as well.
    Not only does this keyboard have the keys for the characters I need,
but the communications program I use generates the correct 8-bit codes
for these characters to match the ISO 8859-1 character set which I've
specified on the configuration screen, last screen.
    So how do I type these native characters not normally used for
English words?  Very well and conveniently, thank you.

Barry Bouwsma, visiting Zürich, Switzerland after a five hour bike ride
from St Gallen just so I could post this message, so now I go back
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