Subject: Re: 8-bit Posting?

From: Davy Cheung <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 13:07:21 +0800

Hello,

On Mon, 6 May 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

>     One possibility is to use the alternate editor feature and use an
> alternate editor which allows entering any of the 256 8-bit bytes. 

Thank you! I can type Chinese using Pico 2.7 (bundled with Pine 3.93?!) as
external editor now. 

However, before, I could type Chinese (8-bit characters) directly in the
internal editor of Pine 3.91. Does anyone know why it is disabled? Or is
there any compile time options to set?

Thanks.

Regards,
Davy

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 10:08:01 -0400

On Mon, 6 May 1996, Davy Cheung wrote:

> It is really nice to see that 8-bit NNTP posting is available in Pine
> 3.93. However, I found that I cannot type 8-bit BIG5 coded Chinese
> characters in the internal editor of Pine... It displays "Unknown
> Command".
> 
> However, I can type them in Pine 3.91 and Pico 2.7. Can anyone give me a
> hand? Thanks.

    One possibility is to use the alternate editor feature and use an
alternate editor which allows entering any of the 256 8-bit bytes. 
jpico, a configuration of the JOE editor, looks a lot like Pico and the
Pine composer but has a lot more capabilities and can supposedly take
whatever you give it.  (I am refering to the Un*x version of JOE/jpico
here.)

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