Subject: Extended char set

From: [email-masked] (Thorsten Sandgren)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 18:04:59 GMT

I receive mail from Europe frequently.  These pieces of mail
usually contains special characters, that Pine does not display
properly.  Is there a feature in Pine that allows these extended 
characters to be displayed on screen?

I.e.,

.   ..  ..
a   a   o

are some of the characters that I would like to be able to view.

Thanks,
	Thorsten

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Thorsten Sandgren               
Bachelor of Science            
New Mexico State University     e-mail:        [email-masked]

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From: Magnus Leksell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 01:39:00 GMT

>characters to be displayed on screen?
[...]

Try this...
Get into SETUP CONFIGURATION mode in your pine program...
..and at the bottom of the list, you set:

character-set          = iso-8859-1

That's IT!

/Magnus

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 11:07:38 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
 
>character-set          = iso-8859-1
 
Well, that _would_ be it if the user's terminal/emulation was
set to display the iso-8859-1 code.  If it isn't correctly set,
PINE will have no idea, and the results could be rather confusing.
 
One quite likely scenario is a terminal emulation that's set to
display 7-bit characters, ignoring the 8th bit.  PINE is _not_
itself in control of the terminal emulation.  It's the user's job
to make sure that the character set that they setup in the PINE config
is compatible with the terminal emulation they are using.  And for
users that move around a lot, and may log on from some unknown
terminal emulation in, say, someone else's office, this is a source
of considerable confusion.
 
I note that you are posting from Sweden.  Presumably, most of the
terminals that you use are already configured to iso-8859-1.  In a
world-wide context, though, this could be the exception rather than
the rule.
 
best regards