Subject: [BUG]Cannot type 8bit char at Subject!

From: Qin An <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:12:03 +0800

Hi,

Is it possible to type 8bit characters at Subject field
in the current version? Why not?

Regards,

Qin.
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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:21:18 +0100

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Qin An wrote:

> in the current version? 

Yes it is. At least I've done it (in the Linux, SunOS, MS-DOS, Win16 and
Win32 versions)

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From: [email-masked] (Gerald Pfeifer)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 12:27:20 GMT

> in the current version? Why not?

Yes it is. (And yes, Pine doesn't just do it, it complies with the
according standards when doing so.)

Ciao,
Gerald
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:42:32 -0500

> Yes it is. At least I've done it (in the Linux, SunOS, MS-DOS, Win16 and

    By what means do you get the 8-bit characters into the subject
field?  (I saw the ones you entered without difficulty: åäö.  The
message body is easy when using an appropriate alternate editor.)  I
think it is interesting that the MIME headers still marked your post as
US-ASCII.  Apparently Pine does not look at the headers when deciding
whether to flag the message as something other than US-ASCII.  (Also,
unfortunately, I have been told that "officially" Usenet is still
7-bit, like email, and that not all news transporters reliably pass
MIME headers.)

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