Subject: saving messages with "international" characters

From: Mary Aplin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:32:11 +0100 (MET)

Hello Pine-ers --

I have a faculty member who receives most of his mail in Russian. When he 
attempts to save a message to a file (via save or export) he loses alot 
of special characters.  

This isn't just a pine problem; he had this same problem with the mailer 
we used to use.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,

Mary Aplin
Loyola University, New Orleans

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 22 Mar 1995 23:26:08 GMT

>attempts to save a message to a file (via save or export) he loses alot 

    This shouldn't be a problem.  Pine saves messages as they are
received, whether with quoted-printable or just-send-8 encoding.  My
guess is that most messages are sent from Russia as 8-bit messages.

    Pine exports messages, if I remember, decoded to 8-bit text, so
you need only the correct display and 8-bit clean path.  I trust you
have the correct font, but Pine passes 8-bit data even when you have
not specially set up your environment for 8-bit data.

    Are you using Unix?  If so, what does  stty -a  show?  If you have
not set up your environment to pass 8-bit data, you will need to do an
stty pass8  or similar.  If your problem is that the special characters
you mention were converted to ASCII characters, this should be your
solution.  If not, provide more details about your setup and how the
characters are lost or munged...

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