Subject: ISO-8859-1

From: [email-masked] (David Monniaux)
Date: 3 Oct 1996 14:01:02 GMT

Hello,

I am on a Unix (Sun/Solaris) system, running X and CDE, if that
matters. I like Pine, but it has some problem : it seems to
believe I've got an US_ASCII display : it sometimes complains
about displaying ISO-8859-1 text on such a display. More over,
it refuses accentuated characters typed on the keyboard.
This looks abnormal : my others applications, even the shells,
accept accentuated characters under ISO-8859-1. There's
probably some misconfiguration somewhere, but I can't find where !? 

-- 
David Monniaux, informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
(computer science student)
e-mail: [email-masked]   http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~dmonniau

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 4 Oct 1996 19:02:40 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Paul O Bartlett  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Whether you will actually see accented ISO letters depends on
>your display hardware.  Typing in the letters should not be a problem
>if you can display them.

A reasonable assumption, but not always correct.  Often, I have been
able to view 8-bit characters without further ado, but I have had to
set terminal attributes in order to type them.

I assume this is due to programs following the "be conservative in what
you send, but liberal in what you accept" adage.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:26:54 -0400

> probably some misconfiguration somewhere, but I can't find where !? 

    Assuming your version of Pine is recent enough, from the Main Menu
go into Setup and Config.  Scroll down to the character-set variable
and set it to ISO-8859-1.  This will at least get rid of the annoying
message.  Whether you will actually see accented ISO letters depends on
your display hardware.  Typing in the letters should not be a problem
if you can display them.  Are you using the built-in composer?  If so,
I will have to let someone else address that.  I have been using the
alternate editor feature for so long that I have forgotten a lot about
the composer.  My editor allows me to enter accented letters, and Pine
accepts them without complaint.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:26:46 +0200 (METDST)

> accept accentuated characters under ISO-8859-1. There's

The problem of the message compmaining about the possibly incorrect
character set has been addressed in previous answers. The problem of
keyboard may be in incorectly set locale variables. Try to set the LANG
environment variable to your language code (consult the man pages for
appropriate values). But it _may_ only be a solution.

Regards,

V. S.

Vladimír Solnický, ÚTIA AV ČR, Pod vodárenskou věží 4,
CZ 182 08 Praha 8-Libeň, +42 2 6605/2364, telefax: +42 2 6884677,
[email-masked], http://www.utia.cas.cz/vs/vs-home-cz.html