Subject: US-ASCII vs. ISO-8895

From: [email-masked] (Aaron Kaase)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 09:34:53 GMT

When receiving mail from a friend using Microsoft Internet Mail (the
applet bundled with Internet Explorer v3.01), I get the following
message in Pine:

[The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set]
[Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
[Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]

This is becoming somewhat of an eye sore. Since I'm a religious Pine
user, I hate to use MS-Mail in order to not see that message. I
installed MS-Mail and sent mail to myself to see what I can do to
configure MS-Mail to send US-ASCII instead of ISO-8859, but I can't
seem to change it (I think it's buried in the Windows 95 MIME settings
in the Windows Registry in the form of cryptic hex). If anybody has
any ideas about this, it'd be appreciated...

But an easier solution might be to just get Pine to not display that
message. Any ideas? I'm using Pine 3.91 on Linux.

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Aaron Kaase                  | email: [email-masked]
P.O. Box 1888                |   WWW: www.pconline.com/~aaronk
St. Paul, MN 55101-0888 USA  |   Tel: +1 612.698.8270

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Fritz Ramm)
Date: 30 Dec 1996 19:08:55 GMT

> St. Paul, MN 55101-0888 USA  |   Tel: +1 612.698.8270

In pine go to setup and then config. Scroll down until you find a variable
named "Character Set". Add iso-8859-1 as value to that field. That will get
rid of the message you desribed above.

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Thomas

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