Subject: Entering French Characters into Pine (Pico)????

From: [email-masked] (Ian Barnett)
Date: 28 May 1995 13:25:01 -0400

Is it possible to enter French characters into pine messages? We are 
using unix Pine/Pico with PCs acting as vt100 terminals. When in vi I can 
hold down the alt key and type 135 (on the numeric keypad) and the letter 
c with a squiggle under it appears on the screen. If I do the same in 
Pico the Illegal command message appears.

Is there something I am missing? How can you get any of the extended 
ASCII characters into a document.

Note: I can edit messages in Pico which contain these extended characters 
with no problems. I just can't enter these characters into the editor.

Ian Barnett

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 19:20:26 -0400

On 28 May 1995, Ian Barnett wrote:

> [...]
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    If you can successfully generate what you want in vi, try composing
your message with vi.  Then, when you are in the composer, just read in
the file composed with vi using the Pine ^R command.  Better yet, you can
tell Pine in the configuration that you want to use vi as your editor when
composing messages rather than using Pine's built-in composer.  I can't
guarantee that either of these methods would work, as I haven't had reason
to try them, but they are simple to try out and worth a shot. 

Paul
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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:11:18 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:
 
>your message with vi.  ...
 
That sounds fine to me.
 
But, it would be polite to check first with your recipients to make
sure that they can actually read the messages!
 
Even if they use PINE (and there are some people out there that
don't), it is not guaranteed that they have a terminal that
displays (or is correctly set up to display) characters in the
upper half of the 8-bit code table.
 
As the saying goes - "be pessimistic in what you send out, and
generous in interpreting what you receive".
 
regards