Subject: German characters and paste in pine

From: "Hasan T. Kosebalaban" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:06:08 +0900 ()

Hello,
I would like to know if I can view and type within pine German
umlauts. Which character set will enable me to do so? Also, paste in
PC-Pine is pretty slow. Is there any way to make it faster?
Thanks in advance.

Hasan T. Kosebalaban

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From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:10:27 -0400

On 11 Apr 1996, Hasan T. Kosebalaban wrote:

> umlauts. Which character set will enable me to do so?
		(snip)
	I doubt you can, and I doubt even more that it'd be
worth your while: both the American Association of Teachers of
German list and all the German lists I've tried just spell
things ae, oe, ue. There is a philological warrant for that,
after all.
	The problem is transmission across the Net, and other
people's readers & mailers: you're liable to send out something
that looks fine on your end, but turns into unreadable gibberish
when it gets there. And ae, oe, ue aren't so bad to get used to.
	Now, if somebody can come up with a better way for the
Scandinavian languages (especially Finnish!), where that kludge
isn't viable .... :-(

                R.R. Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA life
                 Balto-Fennic, Germanic, Romance
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From: [email-masked] (Jason Truesdell)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:16:31 GMT

I used PINE to compose in German while in Germany... It can be done.  I
can't remember exactly what code page or character set has to be set, it was
just sort of already done...  However, if you use a Windows Telnet client
(EWAN), you may have less difficulties than if you use a DOS-based telnet
client.

R R Neuswanger ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On 11 Apr 1996, Hasan T. Kosebalaban wrote:

: > Hello,
: > I would like to know if I can view and type within pine German
: > umlauts. Which character set will enable me to do so?
: 		(snip)
: 	I doubt you can, and I doubt even more that it'd be
: worth your while: both the American Association of Teachers of
: German list and all the German lists I've tried just spell
: things ae, oe, ue. There is a philological warrant for that,
: after all.
: 	The problem is transmission across the Net, and other
: people's readers & mailers: you're liable to send out something
: that looks fine on your end, but turns into unreadable gibberish
: when it gets there. And ae, oe, ue aren't so bad to get used to.
: 	Now, if somebody can come up with a better way for the
: Scandinavian languages (especially Finnish!), where that kludge
: isn't viable .... :-(

:                 R.R. Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA life
:                  Balto-Fennic, Germanic, Romance
: AcqBibSuppProj (ABSP)                 Freedom is my issue: I'm pro-
: Library of Congress                   choice, -CCW, and Right to Die.
: Washington, DC 20540-4120             And I always vote.
: [email-masked]      I speak for me. Only.

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