Subject: (3.95 on AIX) iso-8559 8-bit national characters in compose

From: [email-masked] (Mike Ellwood)
Date: 3 Oct 1996 12:58:50 GMT

I find that I can happily enter national
characters from pico 2.1 or 2.9 using
e.g. ALT-223 = ß

However, when using compose from pine 3.95 
it won't let me. (I get "unknown command").
I've looked through the setup options, and
the only thing I noticed vaguely relevant
(enable 8-bit esmpt transaction) didn't help.

I thought pine used pico as its composer editor,
so I find the difference strange. Does pine
call the external version of pico, or is the
equivalent pico code built into the pine module?
(I'm sure its the latter, so having an older version
of pico as default while using pine 3.95 should not
be the problem, or could it be?)

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Ellwood)
Date: 3 Oct 1996 19:09:16 GMT

Mike Ellwood ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I find that I can happily enter national
: characters from pico 2.1 or 2.9 using
: e.g. ALT-223 = ß

: However, when using compose from pine 3.95 
: it won't let me. (I get "unknown command").
: I've looked through the setup options, and
: the only thing I noticed vaguely relevant
: (enable 8-bit esmpt transaction) didn't help.

: I thought pine used pico as its composer editor,
: so I find the difference strange. Does pine
: call the external version of pico, or is the
: equivalent pico code built into the pine module?
: (I'm sure its the latter, so having an older version
: of pico as default while using pine 3.95 should not
: be the problem, or could it be?)

: [email-masked]

(oops, sorry, that should have been iso-8859).

I found the answer, indirectly, from an earlier posting
when I was trawling through this newsgroup. Sorry I don't
have the name of the person who gave it. Thanks to him/her
anonymously:

Go into "Setup",
Choose "Config"

Look for "Character-set"
Add new value: iso-8859-1

and voilà!

I believe this also answers David Monniau's question, which was
more or less the same.

Merci à tous!

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