Subject: Re: How to config character different from US-Ascii???

From: Virtual Joe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:30:17 -0500

On 18 Sep 1996, PC_USER wrote:

> I get a lot of Chinese mail.  From time to time, I get messages 
> saying the e-mail is using iso-8859-1 character set, and my display 
> is US-ASCII character set.  The message is garbled.  Any way to fix this
> problem?

If you go to your Config setup (Main, then "s" then "c") and go down until
you see "character-set=", you can then insert a different one there.

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From: [email-masked] (PC_USER)
Date: 18 Sep 1996 08:03:24 GMT

Thanks.

Jun-ming Chen
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Adam H. Kerman)
Date: 24 Sep 1996 00:36:28 -0500

The "character-set=" option marks outgoing e-mail with the appropriate header.
(If pine finds that the outgoing message contains nothing but 7-bit characters,
it will be marked US-ASCII regardless of how this variable is set.) 

The gentleman needs to describe what type of terminal he is using. The
terminal itself must be capable of displaying the character set used by
the incoming message. pine only passes the message along as-is.

In article <[email-masked]>,

>>I get a lot of Chinese mail. From time to time, I get messages saying
>>the e-mail is using iso-8859-1 character set, and my display is US-ASCII
>>character set. The message is garbled. Any way to fix this problem?