Subject: alternate character sets

From: [email-masked] (Stewart Boddy)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:34:47 GMT

At Victoria Freenet we're using Pine 3.91 with Pico. 

I would like to know if Pine supports any alternate character sets suich
as Cryllic (sp?) or Korean, Chinese, or Japanese character sets. If Pine
does support some other character sets what additional software is needed
and does that software have to be provided on the server or on the user's
machine? 

Stewart.
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From: John de Boer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 18:07:37 +1100 (EST)

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Stewart Boddy wrote:

SNIPPED
> Stewart.

Joke:> 
                              MATH KNOWLEDGE

   Two mathematicians were having dinner in a restaurant, arguing about
   the average mathematical knowledge of the American public. One
   mathematician claimed that this average was woefully inadequate, the
   other maintained that it was surprisingly high.

   "I'll tell you what," said the cynic, "ask that waitress a simple math
   question. If she gets it right, I'll pick up dinner. If not, you do."
   He then excused himself to visit the men's room, and the other called
   the waitress over.

   "When my friend comes back," he told her, "I'm going to ask you a
   question, and I want you to respond `one third x cubed.' There's
   twenty bucks in it for you." She agreed.

   The cynic returned from the bathroom and called the waitress over.
   "The food was wonderful, thank you," the mathematician started.
   "Incidentally, do you know what the integral of x squared is?"

   The waitress looked pensive; almost pained. She looked around the
   room, at her feet, made gurgling noises, and finally said, "Um, one
   third x cubed?"

   So the cynic paid the check. The waitress wheeled around, walked a few
   paces away, looked back at the two men, and muttered under her breath,
   "...plus a constant."

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Rgds

John de Boer

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:43:01 -0600 (CST)

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> and does that software have to be provided on the server or on the user's

I don't know about 3.91, I'm using 3.95, but the setting is "character-set"
and it's toward the end of the setup|config menu.  Leaving it blank uses
US-ASCII.  Check the help (hit ? on that setting) for more info about which
character sets it supports.

  Jason

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From: Andrej Borsenkow <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:33:32 +0300 (MOST)

> character sets it supports.

I am not shure about the original poster's intent, but setting
"character-set" is definitely *not* what I call "other character set
support". To proper support other character sets, Pine should:

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 01:39:22 -0600 (CST)

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> support". To proper support other character sets, Pine should:

I agree 100%.

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From: [email-masked] (Adam Tla/lka)
Date: 25 Nov 1996 19:02:37 GMT

In my opinion pine should use Unicode characters if terminal supports them.
	Could you think about multilingual letters ?
	
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