Subject: help attach and foreign characters (extended ASCII)

From: Chris Travers <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 21:12:24 -0600 (CST)

Hello,

Thanks for a great mail system! 

But exploring the multiple possibilities offered by Pine I have hit 2 
walls, and I need your help to get through.
The first one concerns file attachments:
I have attached a Word Perfect file to a message I sent to a university 
email system and had no problems, but I also tried sending one to an 
institution which gets its email via mcimail.com and they just received 
garbage. I suppose it means that mcimail.com doesn't care about being 
MIME compliant, or maybe it means something else (I also emailed them an 
inquiry): can you help me determine the best options bearing in mind that 
I don't have a clue.

The second concerns extended ASCII characters such as an e with an accent 
on top:
I can upload an English text into a Pine message, but if I try to upload 
an ascii text file written in French, all the extended characters get 
stripped or misinterpreted. Can you help me find a solution for this 
(does some kind of filter/transposer exist ?)

I am sure you have received these types of questions many times and I 
apologize for the redundancy. I did try to find the answer to these 
problems in the online help, but somehow they eluded me. My web 
administrator hasn't found an answer either.

Many thanks,
Chris Travers

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From: [email-masked] (Haisam K. Ido )
Date: 3 Mar 1996 01:33:47 GMT

Chris Travers ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [...]
: The second concerns extended ASCII characters such as an e with an accent 
: on top:
: I can upload an English text into a Pine message, but if I try to upload 
: an ascii text file written in French, all the extended characters get 
: stripped or misinterpreted. Can you help me find a solution for this 
: (does some kind of filter/transposer exist ?)

I believe that you have to set your character set under setup to be 
iso-8859-1 which contains the International Standard Organization's 
standard for Latin based alphabets.  This set should contain what you 
mention above.  I hope this helps.

: 
: I am sure you have received these types of questions many times and I 
: apologize for the redundancy. I did try to find the answer to these 
: problems in the online help, but somehow they eluded me. My web 
: administrator hasn't found an answer either.
: 
: Many thanks,
: Chris Travers

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